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TE WE beg to Notify our Customers that on Saturday, 3rd: June, and Monday, 6th June, all Depart ments in Exchange Building will be closed with the exception of the Grocery Department, which will remain open both days from 8 A., QII 10 A.M. (Side entrance).
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The Peak Store will remain open
until 10 A.M. each day.
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
LI THE FONG,
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PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
ANNUAL ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of Share. holders will be held at THE HONG KONG HOTEL, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, the 2nd JUNE 1933 at 11:30a.m., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th APRIL, 1033.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 27th day of May, to FRIDAY, the 2nd day of June, 1933 both days inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managera. Hong Kong, 82nd May, 1933.
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McOWAN-On May 22, 1933, nf, the Country Hospital, Shanghai, Kathleen Rosa Meowan, aged 38 years, wife of Mr. A. I.
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PEACE OR CIVIL WAR?
But while the opportunity is
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OLD WAR HORSES IN EGYPT
1933
* News and Views *
Alaka's Grievance,
Alaska, has protested to Congress against the six-hour day and the five-day week on the grounds that all its industries are seasonal-and imagine working only six hours à (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG kowo day in a place where the days are
DAILY-FRESS."]
sometimes six months long:
were
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Lucky Argentine,
Unemployment in the Argentina is exceptionally low, according to a dispatch from the Argentine De-j partment of Labour: Figures show that of a population numbering 12,000,000 only, 333,307 are idle, or less than three per cent.
Wooden Post Cards.
-Sin,-la June of last year you very kindly published at my requent an extract from the Sunday Sketch and Sunday News of May 2, 1932, containing a brief account of the distressful plight of several hun- dreds of Britain's Old War Horses in Egypt. Many of your readers to forward good enough donations to me for transmission in their behalf to Lady Doris Gunston, 13, Southwick Crescent, W.2.
In a letter received to-day Lady Doris Gunston"'informa me that she is again hard at work in the in terests of those remaining and that any further assistance sent to her from Hong Kong would be very
Ecuador has the largest supply of much appreciated. She further states that the Ball beld last year balsa in the world. The postal card had realised the handsome amunt idea originated with the country's of £1,500 nett and that Mrs. Brooke largest sawmill, which experimented from Egypt had informed her that with the wood, found the scheme as far as can be foreseen the pre-feasible and then interested the ceeds of the next Ball ought to clear public. up all the poor old War Horses in Egypt.
"I have already sent individual acknowledgments for donations sent me last year, but I am sure that all your readers interested in this movement will be delighted to learn of the very gratifying progress made on behalf of these moat. de- serving dumb friends of ours who served our Empire so well in its hour of greatest peril.-I am, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
Hong Kong, Juné 1.
D. DAVIS.
66 NATIONS IN LONDON
Plans for World Conference
MUSEUM A DEBATING CHAMBER
great, the loss of it would be proportionately disastrous. What, indeed, would play more complete- ly into the hands of the Japanese than a repudiation of China's own delegates, followed by an outbreak of Civil War between Nanking and a Canton-Kuominchun alliancef How eloquently
Count UCHIDA, Mr. MATSUOKA and the plans are rapidly being com other spokesmen of Japan pro- the very large number of visitors pleted for "the reception of
would
claim that here was proof indeed of every complaint and accusation "Even levied against the Chinese
(Special Air-Mall Service)
LONDON, May 18, With the World Economic Con ference only
away, month A
Wooden postal cards are being used in Ecuador. Balsa, a smooth, close-grained wood, is being cut into thin strips. Half-tone printa and advertising cover one side of the card.
The Mollisons Plane.
A big plane, so heavy when load- ed that there is no suitable run- way in Great Britain for a takeoff, has been selected by the flying Mollisons, Jim and Amy, for their projected New York-Baghdad non stop flight,
sections to
It will be taken to New York in be reassembled at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, N.Y. The plane will have three vast cylindrical tanks and a single-seat- ed cockpit, with just enough space for Capt. James Mollison and his wife to change over controls. The resting pilot will use tiny cabin in the machine's tail.
Six Months' Hard Labour.
The Plumber's Mate
No fewer than fifty members of that popular winter craft-plumb ing-are to show their skill in a
competition in Manchester. Some aro journeymen; others are mere apprentices."
As a journeyman-first to look at the leak, then to go back for his tools, and finally to fetch his mate -the plumber is without a rival in industry.
But in this pipe-repairing com petition, he is to be severely handi- capped. He is to carry out the test single-handed, being deprived of the assistance of a mate or of the familiar blow-lamp.
The aptly named journeyman, will have the sympathy of the thou- sands of well-wishers who have been privileged on a frosty morning to witness his all-in wrestling perfor- mance in their bath-rooms,
The Garbe Talks,
Truth, like crocuses and spring rashes and other natural pheno. mena, will eventually out. Not so
SUMMARY OF NEWS
::: General,
There has been more friction over the Chinese Eastern Railway, änd the Soviet are still willing to sell to Japan. Details will be found on page 1.
A translation of the Japanese version of the Sino-Japanese Armis- tice will be found on page 9.
The Disarmament Conference has been adjourned for three weeks, according to a message received from Geneva,
Page 8.
The appointment of Colonel A. J. Ellis, D.8.0., as Commander of British Troops in Tientsin has been announced. Details on page 9.
Far East.
friendship between the two coun
We came to the, belief that the tries remained unchanged despite the discordant note of the last 20 months, said Viscount Ishii în a speech referring to his conversa, tions with President Roosevelt.
Page 1. Local According to reports made to the Police, two dogs in the Kowloon district turned savage all of a sudden on Wednesday and attacked some Chinese men and boys. One of the men is in a serious condi tion, as a result of the bites he re- ceived about the arms, legs and body. Details will be found in the Howloon Supplement.
ArrangementTM for the Naval and Military Parade in Status Square, the King's in honour of H.M. birthday to-morrow
appear Page 7.
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on
long ago, pondering the much ad- vertised silence of Mias Greta Garbo, people wondered what it was that everyone expected her to say, and some even ventured that nobody," least of all Miss Garbo, really knew... When she arrived Two matches in the Lawn Bowls back in Hollywood after her cargo- Singles Championships were decid steamer trip from Europe, all theed last evening. The results will pressmen had to ask her was be found on
Page 10.. How long do you expect to
Results of yesterday's league stay Not much of an opening will be found on Page 10. tennis matches in the "C" division there, but the Garbo did her best by replying-" I don't know. One never knows about life, does one 1" One does not, and everybody knows as much. But the great thing is that the closed lips have been opened, even if they have revealed nothing more epoch-making than the probable contents of Joanna | Southcott's box.
Less Than Kind,
A great egg-laying competition will be one of the features of the Chicago Fair, opened yesterday Rens from all over the world are competing entries having been re ceived from twenty-eight States of A the Union, from Canada, and from four. European countries.
On the whole, one feels that Miss Garbo is less to blame for all the pother than those who feel impell The hens apparently are to be led to chronicle her slightest doing. allowed to lay their eggs in their Certainly she has had a little more own time. The eggs will be col- lected each day and developed into chickens or sold as souvenirs of the Fair to visitors. For twenty-six at the end of that time the hen weeks the contest will continue, and
.
to London who are concerned.
which has laid most eggs will be de This assembly of Government declared world champion. legates, secretaries, experts, clerke, stenographers, and other staffa from sixty-six nations will be the greatest of its kind that has ever met in the capital..
The 2,000 or more persone who are expected are likely to have! their numbers strengthened consi- derably by relatives eager to take advantage of seeing London.
than candour and less than kind ness this time from the Hollywood reporters, who stated that she look ed "pale and nervous, possibly be- cause there is
a pimple on her пове,
Local and General
The Colony hnd a clean bill of Capt. F. Baylis of the BB. Tai health on Wednesday:
Lee appeared before the Hon. Comdr. J. B. Newill," D.8.0., at
The case in which "Dick" Adam- son is suing Mr. Newman of Gloucester building for slander was continued yesterday. At th end of the day's hearing the Paine judge decided that there as no case to answer in respect of the letter written on January Page 6.
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When Mr. R. E. Cole made an- other appearance before Mr. But- ters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday to apply for the reopen. ing of his former application for the restitution of nine · canęs of rubber shoes valued at $2000 to Mr. Tang Pak Lan who was alaimaď to have been the bona fide purchaser of the goods Mr. Pater tory opposed the Sin, for the Pacific Rubber Fac- application.. Kowloon Supplement.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange official report appears on Page 13.
From the files.
Looking Back 25 Years, -
The Government. tender Stan ley had an exciting experience during the week and. It towed a junk to the vicinity of the Gap Rock Lighthouse for the purpose of laying down moorings for the
Meanwhile, work is steadily pro ceeding in the conversion of the new Charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones Marine Court yesterday to answer tender, but on arrival there the Geological Museum at South Ken at Central Magistracy yesterday summons for overloading his junkmen refused to work and turn- sington to the needs of the Con-with keeping an opium divan, a
vessel on May 30 last. Capt. Baylised for Hong Kong. The Stan- ference.
Iey followed and again took the Chinese was fined $150 or ten pleaded guilty and was fined $200, funk in tow, but the Chinese cut weeks.
the tow line and sailed for. Hong The new patrol-boat Funing, re- Kong. The matter will be investi The wedding will shortly take cently constructed by the Kiangran gated at the Marine Court mi place between Mr. James Ottaway Dock for the Ministry of Navy's Hong Kong Doily Press, June 5, Pote Hunt, stock-broker, of 7, Ice National Countguard Bureau, left House Street, Hong Kong, and Kaochangmino last Sunday on her LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS. Miss Priscilla Fairlie Arbogast, of maiden voyage to Nanking where 433, Avenue Haig, Shanghai..
she will be stationed for some time. The master is Cagitain Chiang Yuan
Structural Adaptations
had to be faced is that of making One of the problems which has
self-contained without serious
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be held on June 1.
1908.
Archers Surprise party WAN patronised by a fairly good house. on Wednesday evening, though the cupied. Unlike its predecessor this company was small in numbers, and the entertainment was in the Chan Lok Chai, a boy giving his first half somewhat of a music hall.
character, Mr. Archer gave two convictions for larceny, was con- comic songs and Miss Lily Devere victed by Mr. Schofield, at the gave three combination songs and Central Magistracy yesterday, on a dances, and a song which is rather charge of the attempted theft of an old friend "Awfully Awful." a wallet containing. $8,34 from Miss Devere received a fair share Bachan Singh on a tramcar on May of applause, and her appearanes on the stage was pleasing-Hong 30, and was sentenced to six
Kong Daily Press, June 9, 1889. months' imprisonment.
at this hour," they would say, "chaos and disorder is unchecked. The talk about the rape of Man- churia is so much bluff and blustër, for foreign consumption. What is China? A gicup of self-seeking feirddal chiefs What do they care about Not Manchuria; not re- construction and renaissance; not the suppression of the "Reds." A shall army of workmen is em- CHIANG KAI SHER controls Shang-ployed on the task, and the interior
of the fine building is being skil hai, and the opium trade down the fully adapted for the accommoda- Yangtezo. All that his opponents tion of the 2,000 people who will
make it their headquerters. want is to get his place and his' It appears that the Tangku Con- chance to collect easy money?" ference has resulted in an armistice Thus would Japan argue, and who TH
THE EIGHTH EXTRA RACE being signed by the Chinese and could blame the West, unversed the great hall of the Conference In a report to the police, M. C.
MEETING will be bold (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Japanese commanders on the spot. in the facts of the situation, for structural alteration. The hall is Renner; the French Vice-Consuti Fu. The, fag-raising ceremony will Dress Circle was but thinly MONDAY, 5TH JUNE, 1988, The latter have the advantage of nocepting the contention. China the base of the deep well that is states that some person or persons commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Boll will be Rung at the support of a Central Govern is beyond us," would be the con- flooded with daylight from the stole some bathing costumes and glass roof high above. To abut towels, which were left in his ear, 1.30 p.m.
mant, who give instructions and clusion. "These Far Eastern off the upper part of the Con No. 3889, in Chater Road, on Wedge as 15 years, with six previous MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
back the decisions made" in accord peoples must go their own way. ference hall would ordinarily necesnesday. ance with its orders. The Chinese We cannot interfere in this comitate the erection of a solid ceil
ing.
A sentence of three weeks were delegation has to act far more on plicated quarrel, with all the
To doviate this the simple ex passed on a Chiness by Mr. Wynne its own responsibility. Nanking curious ramification of a dispute pedient has been resorted to of Jones at Central Magistracy. yes may or may not uphold them but it among members of a big family." analogous to the roof of a marquee to. receiving eight frames of glass providing a dome fabric covering terday when the man pleaded guilty would appear that the Ruominchun
or tent of graceful folds. The which had been taken from 140, Perhaps the Chinese answer any spacious first-floor gallery is to Des Voeux Road Central. and the South-West will certainly
"Leave us alone, to do things have its open sides enclosed by
Chinese cotton mill owners in not, and intend to repudiate any in our own way." But the clock sound-proof boards, partitioned off
Making his appearance before Shanghai have agreed to run their Japan's Bld for Leviathan, cannot be put back at will.
A report from Washington tells
·A for the provision of separate rooms Mr. Schofield yesterday on a charge factories according to the demands lessening of Western interest, poli- ;
In the basement considerable of having caused grievous bodily of their respective businesses Five of recent attempt by Japan to labour is being directed to the injury to Li Chuen in Second mills employing 11,000 hands are ou purchase the liner Leviathan (48,000 This is unfortunate for theretical and economic, means an in- construction of well-equipped post Street on April 21, Lau So, an ora five-day basis, operating day and tons). Two other remarkable in- never was a time when a show of evitable tightening of the Japanese office, with a telephone and tele district watchman, was committed night shifts, while seven of the stances of Japan's past policy of unity was more needed by the grip If there is war and disunion grap installation that will permit fort trial as the Criminal Sessions. Sung Sing mills, employing 30,000 attempting to acquire ships adapt- hands and four other mills withable for use ne troop transports are of quick communication by a consi Chinese people. Though beaten in during the next few months Japan derable number of people at one Accepting the defendant's ples. 5,000 employees, are functioning also related. The. Shipping Board the field they are still potentially and Russia will sieze the opportu- time with all parts of the world that he did not know it was an
full time Government hospitality plane are offence, Mr. Schofield in the Con a great and powerful nation, ie nity to advance their interests still under consideration, but there tral Police Court yesterday, dis
position to drive a hard bargain Russia has renowed her offer to sell is a strong expectation that sum charged a Chinese youth, who was before Mr. Wynne Jones in the
of £10,000 will be allocated, mostly with Japan. They have their boy: the Chinese Eastern Railway, which for the purpose of imposing dinners charged with the possession of two Central Police Court yesterday cott, which Japan fears; they have suggests that Moscow's bickerings and receptions, which, by reason of small green birds in a nest. The with the theft of a wrist watch in Connaught Road Central, he plead world opinion behind them, and with Tokyo do not go very deep their cosmopolitan nature, promise birde died at the Station.
ed guilty and, was remanded. Do to be remarkable. sarinistice is not a treaty.. If China has come to the parting of
Chiness was charged be tective-Sergeant Fowlie said that There was cheerful unanimity Boldiers and Sailors in uniform are Japan becomes unreasonable the the ways. Her loaders et either yesterday at the leading hotels fore Mr. Schofield yesterday with complainant went for a swim near
about the importance of the occa- uttering a forged $10 note of the the Harbour Office Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, etc., Chinese can place on her the odium sink their differences and stand tomon so far as it affecta accommoda Chartered Bank, the Magistrate held his jacket. Defendant sug ping Board asked for what purpose will not be permitted to operate with of starting hostilition, once more gether, or they can drag their tion at these establishments, and held that there was insufficient evigested the lnd should also have a the three ships were wanted JocKay Olus during the Race Meeting.
No One without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Cini, Rooms at $5.00 for Gentlemen and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are ob tainable through the SECRETARY Member, such Member to be responsible upon the personal application of a for all visitors introduced by him, and For Payment of All Chits, etc.
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor," Gloucester Building (Tel, 27794), will close at 12 O'Clock Noon.
Badgea admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Bace Course.
On No Pretext will Children be permitted in either Enslesuze during the Meeting.
Tifins are obtainable at the Olas House provided they are ordered from the N
No. 1 Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.
PUBLIO ENCLOSURE
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $8.00 including Tax, for
all Parsons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gato
admitted Half Price
agreement with Japan, if they get
the power.
be:
as necessary.
When a
When Tze Kam Tong was charged
recently received an inquiry from a New York firm in regard to the possibility of purchasing the Mount Vernon and the Monticello, two Government-owned vessels. Both were seized from Germany during the war. The further inquiry was made if the Leviathan was to be removed from the Transatlantic service, and, if so, whether she was A small boy for sale. Before replying the Ship
in. the Precincts of Tax HONG KONG What a chance for China, to show country further into a chaos upon the probability of entertainments dence of guilty knowledge and dis [awim and offered to hold the jackef. hearing that the Japanese wanted
By Order,
strength and dignity and the power which communism will batter, arid of national spirit over mere mili- Japan will use as a pretext for far 1881 tary aggression !
on a large scale.
1) KOME QUICK BUécia) Strangements
contemp
Shopkaspers are also hopeful charged the man with a caution. When they finished their swim, the them as scrap-iron,
In doing so, Mr. Schofield advised complainant discovered his watch of the board immediate of the benefits that will accrue, and him to be more careful in future was missing. Defendant pawned that no such sale would
plied.
con
with bank notes.
the article for one dollar
sidered
OB. BROWN,
Secretary.
Hong Kony, 29th May, 1932
ther, encroachments.