NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PAPAL DAY.
A.M.
ILL be celebrated at Catholic Cathedral, Sunday, 25th instant High Mass 800 Benediction, preceded by Barmen preached by Rord. R. W. Gallagher,
B. J., 400 p.m.
Social at Wah Yan College. Catholics cordially invited.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS or ALEXANDER
RODGER, LATE OF
HONG
Kore AND or Noxwood Kian SCOTLAND, Esquire, Deceased.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of the "Provisions of Section 58 of the Probate Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send la their Claims sgainst the shore Estats to the 21st DAT of JULY, 1933
All Creditors and Others are accord- ingly hereby required to send their. Claims to the Undersigned on or before that dais,
Dated this 22nd day of June, 1933.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER,
Solicitors for the Ex cators,
rince Building
Ice Houss Street,
Hong Long.
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GOVERNMENT BILLS, ETC.
för SPECIE and
TENERICAN DOLLARS Current in this Colony, for Telegraphio Transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of Hi Majesty's Treasury, London, un to and for the Sum of 250,000, will be r-ceived by the TREASURY CHEST OFFICER, COMMAND PAY OFFICE, anti 11 o'clock an,
the 230 JUNE, 1933,
OF
"The Tenders to state the Total Amount (in Pounds Sterling). No Telegraphic Transfer will be made for less than £100. The Tanders to be in Duplicate, and in Sealed Covers, addressed to the TREA BURY CHEST OFFICER, COM. MAND PAY OFFICE, and endorsed "TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT BILLS, etc."
The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.
Coples of Forma of Tender can be had on application,
"Parsons tendering for (Bill) are bereby, Noliflad that, having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III. Cap 15 and 41, George III. Cap. 62, the acceptance of any such Tender is subject to the express condition that no Member of the British House of Commons shali be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Con. tract thereby
made for the allotment of such (Bills)."
"The provisions in question do not) apply to Contracts entered into by any Incorporated Company in its corporated capacity and made for the general beneßt of the Company."
P. A. GEDGE.
Major, R.A.PC, Treasury Chest Officer,
His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong,
PEAK CLUB.
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THE Annual General Meeting of Members will be held at the PEAK CLUB, on THURSDAY, 29th June, 1998, et 6 p.m.
Thu
H. C. B. WAY,
Hon. Secretary.
AGENCIES.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933.
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THE FIGHTING SERVICES
Royal Navy
CRUISER FOR EAST INDIES
(Special Air-Mail Service)
* News and Views
Taken to Pieces,
SUMMARY OF NEWS
It is curious to observe the in- teraction of superstition, a legacy from the earliest history of the human race, with its most modern journed. achievements,
Gooal.
The Chief Justice, in a written judgment decided for the defen- chalant shrug of one's shoulders dants with costs in the case in For when one is reduced to a com- which a Chinese widow sought to Our forefathers were more accus plete state of dither an Gasumed reclaim 73, Bonham Strand West, tomed to carving both joints and air of unconcern has often a trick alleging that the property, assign- birds than we are. And they knew of putting an entirely differentment was a forgery by her own
adopted son.
Page 7. more, too, of the art and its nomen- | complexion on affaire
In the Summary Court yesterday clature.
Harold Guard of 2 Garden Road was plaintiff in a claim for 8500 from Charles North of David's There was counter Cafeteria. claim for $150. The case was ad- At yesterday's meeting of the. Legislative Counei!" the Colonial questions, that the number of pri- soners in the gaol was above aver age owing to the drive against opium smugglere. The contraband from Singapore was not popular and smuggling tended to increase.
Page 7. At the meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Counse cil it was stated that despite recent expansion of Government officers, several departments still suffered, from lack of proper accommoda- Page 7.
To carve a gooes was "to reve," Superstition, LONDON, June 8. and to carve a peacock was to
You "it.
"lifted" & H.M.S. Colonibo has been order disfigure"
"unbraced a mallard or ed to complete refitting at Devon swan, THAN
port Dockyard next week, and to duck, dismembered a heron, be steamed to Chatham by a navi-"displayed" a crane, "unjointed" gating party to prepare for service a bittern, "winged "a partridge, in the East Indies. She is required" thighed" a woodcock, "brealed This reflection is prompted by Secretary explained, in reply, to to take the place of the Emerald teal, and "alayed pheasant.learning that in most American while that ship is undergoing large With fish, you were supposed to skyscrapers there is no thirteenth
*** tush" & barbel,.. "'fin repairs in England.
a chub. floor. How far will this tendency "' gobbet " The Colombo, which is of 4,200
a trout, "splate" a spread? There are already several tons, 99 knots, and five in. guns, pike, "splay" a bream, and "troun (pportunities for it. is of older and less powerful design chen" an eet. than the Emerald, of 7,550 tons; 33 knots, and seven 6-in. guns. But What Books Do You Hate Most? there are no spare ships of the lat ter class available. The Colombo that question:
reviewer in answer to Says a has previously served in the East Strong, realistic novels of the Indies Squadron in 1992-26. will commission in late June within which repressed young girls, tired housewives, defeated farmers and strong, lusty sons of tail chase one another through 300 pages of trumped-up suffering.
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CHAU YUE TENG.-Funeral to start from his residence No. 33, Sey- mour Road (Hong Kong) at 10.30 aut. on Sunday, June 25, 1933, "stopping at Yat Pit Ting (Kennedy Town) 'for. last rites at 12.30 p.m.
She
a Chatham crew and is to arrive on the station about mid-August.
Home Fleet At Seapa, After its exercises off the north. English novels in which American east coast of Scotland the Home character who proves his American Float is due to arrive at Scapa toism by using slang of pre-Spanish day and to remain" a week, during | War vintage. which the annual pulling regatta will be held. The Fleet is practic ally at full strength, the chief ab santees being the
battle-craiser Renowa, the new cruiser Leander, and certain destroyers. On June 10 the ships and flotillas separate for independent visits to coast towns and holiday resorts,
Detective stories in which the detective, is an authority on Chi- nese jade, the experiments of Pavlov or the breeding of chow dogs.
Smart novels in which it is taken for granted that two people who love each other must go away to gobber, no matter how much misery they may cause innocent bystand- ers to suffer.
Memoirs by women who knew D. H. Lawrence.
Does an astronomer avoid a first glimpse of the now moon through his telescope.? When he sees it does he turn his cheque book in his pocket? And picture the embar rassment of the modern flat dweller who, wishing to touch wood, finds only chromium steel furniture.
Disturbing for High-brows.
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It may be a comfort to low-brows to learn that high brows are not always repositories of the higher intelligence..
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tion
A Chinese and his wife were charged before Mr. Schofield yes- terday, at Central Magistracy with
Robbery was the murder of an old woman who Page 7. alleged to be the motive. lived with them.
A taxi driver who failed to stop An anthropologist, who has been following an accident was fined studying forehead heights
for $30, He pleaded that be was thirty, years, has arrived at the frightened by threatening attitude or of the mob which collected round conclusion that the lowness height of a forehead has no relation the car. Inspector Alexander said to the kind of brain it harbours. that as far as the police knew there He found no measurable differ- had been no recent trouble of that
Page 7. " ence between Academicians and kind. scientists on the one side and illiMr. Li Chor Chi was summoned terate mountaineers on the other. for allowing his dogs to appear in
In short, if mental power were cor the public streets without, being ... related with brow height the Al-property muzzled. The summeas askan Eskimo would possess the were dismissed.
Page T world's supreme intellect.
General. The death has taken place of Sir Henry Birkin the famous racing When George I was King there motorist who bas been seriously ill
since May 29.
Page 9. used to be a cavalry Prince of
Tragedy brought to a close the... Guards. On one occasion the fu- Spanish airmen, Captain Wales" Guard mounted near Horse brilliant Atlantic flight of the Bar- ture George II. attempted vain tobaran and Lieut. Collart. Details found by a Light Dragoon Regi turn out this Guard,
Page. The problem of trade restrictions 14 now the topic of discussion 'in the first Sub-Committee of the Economic Commission. Particulara
Page 8 will be found on
Mr. T. V. Soong was received by M. Daladier, with whom he dis- The real trouble is that when the The Foot were not in much bet-cussed the Far Eastern situation.
Mr. Soong explained the position, objective world insists on being conter cage. On an occasion when a trary, it only seems to make mat burglary alarm was raised at Ken: from the standpoint of the Nan-
king Government,
Page. 9. ters worse to try to straighten sington Palace no assistazo could be obtained from the Palace Guard
too busy helping the burglars.
Days That Go Wrong.
Turn Out the Guard.
H.K.S. Sandhurst, H.M.S. Bandhurst, Captain James Powell, D.S.O., depôt-ship for the Mediterranean destroyer flotillas, will pay off and recommis sion at the Nore on July 23 for fur ther service on the Mediterranean Station. Her present ship's com- Why is it that some daya seeni so pany joined on July 22, 1931 Cap contrary, days on which try as one tain Powell will be relieved in com- may, nothing seesas to go right? mand by Captain G. H. Creswell, The old belief that one sometimes D.S.C., from the command of the gets out of bed on the wrong side Malcolma and the Nore Reserve lays most of the blame for a bad day Flotilla. The Mediterranean. is on the individual. But can an un- now the only fleet allowed a desforeseen flood of irritating mishaps ment. No officer was present, and troyer depot-ship, the others having and setbacks he wholly explained on when the officer of the King's been scrapped as measure of the assumption that the victim is and itself came to the Prince's economy in 1926, and the vessels suffering from a sluggish liver? aid he at last paraded three per made dependent either on their own There is something mere to it than fectly happy troopers, who support-
the dockyards that. direct.
resources or
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Commander of the Furious.
to
ed each other in line.
which
things out. It is much better as most of the men were said to be
Local and General
the sphere of governmental expen- diture, both local and central. There has been a virtual cassation of public improvements Under the demand for economy, communities have largely stopped buying water- works, parks, bridges, highways, DEATHS. CAMPBELL On May 30, 1933, at 18,
sewage systems, city halls and so
On the recommissioning of the Claarionrde Gardens, ELLEN forth-just as they have diminished aircraft-carrier Furious, Comman MARY, widow of James Duncan their buying of shoes, clothing, der E. D. B. McCarthy will join
the ship as executive officer in ait bark with a vacant emile on Campbell (Craignish), C.MG. (China papers, please copy),
books, automobiles, houses and succession to Commander L. E. Hone's face and an occasional non- MACDOUGALL-On May 28, 1933, at travel service. And the result has Maund, who has served throughout
Edinburgh, ALEXANDER DONALD MaDoranta, late of the Char been the same: stagnated indus-in the autumn of 1931. Commander the present commission which began
tered Bank of India, Australia tries, unemployment, reduced pur-McCarthy has for the past two and China, son of the late chasing power and retarded circu-years been a colleague of the new Donald MacDougall, Esq., and
commanding officer of the Furious, of Mrs. MacDougall, Craggan lation of money.
Captain J. S. M. Ritchie, in the House, Grantown-on-Spey,
Training and Staff Duties Division, The Colony had a clean bill of Admiralty. He was trained at health on Wednesday, except for Osborne and Dartmouth, and dur-one case of enteric, ing the War served as sub-lieutenant and lieutenant in the destroyers. Contest, Ferret, Lurcher, and Mon- The Hong Kong International trose. He has passed the naval Amateur Swimming Association are holding a Swimming Gala at staff course, and also attended one at the Military Staff College, Cam- the Eumpean Y.M.C.A. bath at 9 berley. He was promoted to comp.m. to-morrow. mander in December, 1920, while telligence in the flagship of the ed stage of decomposition, with the staff officer for operations and in- The body of a man in an advane Australian Squadron.,
head badly smashed up, has been picked up at Telegraph Bay. It was removed to the Mortuary: but as yet has not been identified.
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The American people are estimat- ed to have spent $11,800,000,000 for purchase, upkeep and operation, of automobiles in 1930, while their tolal tax payments, national, state and local, were calculated by the Industrial Conference National Board to be $10,268,000,000. It ir naturally asked if the outlay for public services-including road than
The Daily Press. building-was less profitable tomo
HONG KONG, JUNE 23, 1933.
Thames Visits.
The destroyer Scimitar, from the ore Reserve, will conclude a three daya' visit to Southend to-day, The Scout, another reserve destroyer, is
The Army
TWO NEW COLONELS
Ho Fuk, charged with the larceny of a goose was sentenced to six weeks hard labour by Mr. Schofield yesterday. Two Chinese who had chased defendant and arrested him, were complimented.
Quarantine restrictions imposed against arrivals from Swatow on account of small-pox have been removed.
on
From the files.
Looking Back 75 Years
OUR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
We really think that, the re- cords of the Public acts of our Legislative Council betray such and precipitale mismanagement over zealous left-handedness, as to amount to the charge of irregular
Two Chinese arrested playing football in Connaught Road Cen tral, were brought before it if not illegality. Schofield yesterday by Inspector Hourihan. Ons said he was look ing on, and, was discharged while, the other was fined $3.
It
The habit
The publication of Gazettes Ex- traordinary ao repeatedly as has lately occurred, would make appear that the council is troubled with the nightmare. If there were wars or rumour of wark, the prac Sunday Concerts will commence tice would be excusable, but these that for motor transport. Or if its
again for the Summer Season on extra issues are simply filled with results through the payments of
July 2 at the Pesinsula Hotel, everyday occurrences, wages and purchase of supplies
This innovation last year, draw should be. eschewed, because if a were any less helpful to business.
A fine of $50 or one month was hundreds and hundreds of people person missess seeing the Gazette Certain it is that a large accu- to visit Woolwich from today until imposed by Mr. Schofield this in the spacious lounge of the Penin- Extraordinary he may very well mulation of deferred publie im Monday, and Gravesend from June morning, on Kwai Chi, who plead suis Hotal and every selection repossibly never become acquainted provement projects exista, and that 25 to July 1. The Scimitar willed guilty to receiving 111 white ceived a hearty round of applause" with its contents. He may natur. ally come to the conclusion, if he AMERICA'S VIEWPOINT municipalities and states could get visit. Greenwich from June 18 to 24, wall tiles, the property of the
extra value for their expenditures at the time of the Greenwich Night Chung Lee Building Constractors.
has it on his file every Saturday Members of the drug trade are that he has the issue complete and THE weakness of any international by going forward with them now. Pageant..
invited by the Organisera to visit may search in vain, during a sub- Conference is that each nation How to finance them is being an
Chemists' the 42nd
Exhibition,sequent reference, for the contents frankly seeks its own advantage.swered apparently by one section,
London, which will be housed from of the Extraordinary, which are The idea of giving way to a small of the National Recovery Bill
September 25th-29th. 1833 in the neither repeated nor even noticed extent in order to convey great This section provides that out of
New Hall of the Royal Horticul-in the regular Baturday' issue. benefits on other countries, in the the $3,300,000,000 to be raised for
tural Society Westminster, S.W. Then should any tender be ad- hope that in the long run condi- public works, grants may be made
vertised, or land sale announced, Admission can be obtained on pre- or any other Notification issued tions will improve all round, has to states, counties, districts, er Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas
sentation of trade card.
from which revenue, is expected, or not taken root: The only alter municipalities to aid in local im J. Hutton, D.S.O., M.C., R.A., is In celebration of the anniversary
other pecuniary advantage looked native to reaching a compromise provement projects, the grants to to-day promoted colonel, and joins of the Coronation of His Majesty, by general concession is far one
A Chinese who in the course of for from the Chinese, & counter- be limited to 30 per cent of the the War Office Staff is G.8.0.1. King George V., all warships in } group to impose its will on the cost of labour and materials in-
He has been commanding the 3rd the Harbour were dressed with fight, picked up a stone and part in the Chinese language is native population, though number- KONG DAILY PRESS, 38, FLEET STREET, E.0.4, is constant there must have been wise and public works in the national in the Army bice 1900. He had a salate of 21 guns was fired from causing very serious injuries, was ing as seventy to one as against yesterday fined $50 and ordered to Europeant, are left in blissful ly receiving Enquiries from Home generous statesmanship within the recovery programme is of high distinguished record in France, HM.S. Tamar.
pay $20 compensation. He was ignorance of the law that mis Manufacturers regarding Suitable | group. The most remarkable ex importance. These are scattered Salonica and the Black Sea, and
has been closely associated with According to the 8.M.O. health also bound over in the sum of 850 governs them. Firma to set se Agents for their ample of such a process was in the throughout the land where thou-Field-Marshal Lord Milne, whose returns for communicable disease to keep the peace for one year. products in Hong Kong and decade before the war when Great sands and thousands can be put to military assistant he was at the for the week ended June 3, there said that at one time there as Colony, namely the function of the Mr. Inglis' assumption of the Sergenat Slater who prosecuted mest important department in the Fonth China.
Britain settled extraordinarily work, without being moved from War Office. their homes.
were 219 deaths, four of which Lieut. Col. George F. C. White, ware of foreigners. Among the preferred. The defendant abscond-officer, has never been announced likelihood of a serious charge being Harbour Master and Emmigration Sa much, in fact, depends upon D.E.O., R.A., is also promoted Chinese population, there were 23ed and was only arrested on at all. We may be mistaken but the thaw of capital, and its diver colonel from command of the 1st deaths from tuberculosis, ?!
Wednesday afternoon, several days we much doubt if his signature to sion into profitable sources, that' Medium Brigade, R.A. ·He, has
The Chinese Eastern Railways after the fight.
a ship's clearance under the Chinese It is still too early in the World the American Government is going been 32 years in the Army, and
Fassengers' Act, would be available Economic Conference discussions to to look not twice, but many times, served both as a Regular and Ter are now running a regular freight
was a and passenger through. .service!
in case of a diepute. Because al- know whether any group has come at any proposal that may possibly ritorial adjutant. He
A special Gala Night is announce though the Governor has the to an
agreement. America ob react unfavourably on her own brigade major in France and was from Shanghai to Europe.
spite of recent difficulties they have for Repulse Bay on Wednesday power duly to appoint whom he twice decorated. viously fears any form of currency affairs. The 'view is still widely-
the 28th instant, extending to
pleases, still an announcement in stabilisation that may; check the held in America that its own crash
lately been able to maintain a con-
The management of the the Gazette is essential we im sistently good service without in Hotel has been able to secure the agine, before an Emigration officer. rise in prices and the consequent was due to internal, and not ex-
terruption.
services of Buster Dunson, and the can be duly appointed. signs of slowly returning prosperity, ternal affairs; to over-speculation, is the best help that can be given,
Over 5,000 applications were re Garcia Bistors, the troupe who ob- How to increase the spending of a weak banking system, to sudden and commerce will in those ciroum
Last Saturday's Gazette (27th The Required Information should te money for the products of its panic; bad, having learnt stances resume normality elsewhere!ceived from ex-officers for the 400 tained such a great success in the March) announced the Criminal fundamental industries-agricul- leason, the mischief can be put It is very doubtful if that is the commissions thrown open by the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel Sessions for last Monday (20th on the 17th instant and who are idem). On Monday they were post ture, manufacturing, merchandig right, and the country stagger un- best way out of the Slump, or even Japanese War Office.
still receiving rounds of applause poned unannounced until the 18th ing and so forth has been the aided to its feet, and pursue the way out at all, but such a view According to the data published at the King's Theatre Repulse April. This seems a small matter HONG KONG DAILY FREEB, Lan active concern of the United States old policy of self-suficiency with undoubtedly makes a strong appeal by a Roms paper, Italy's toll of Bay is an ideal place in the sum to our erratic dictators, for on for many months. On the other complete success. As to the rest of to American pentiment and in this victims, during the Gred War was mir and this function promises to Tuesday an Extraordinary was in kand, there has been a vast the, world, If America recovers, that light her policy at the Economie listed at 030,071 dead, 16,000 mise be most enjoyable. Early reserva-sued, perfectly silent on the enb economy campaign, especially in (Continued at foot of next Column) Conference must be considered. ing and 1,160,000 wounded.
tions are advisable.
Lject.
London Uffles of the HONG rest. But before this can be done volved. The inclusion of local Field Brigade, A. and has been flaga yesterday morning. At noon threw it at another man's head, invariably affixed. Otherwise, the
If Local Companies desirous of taking
up. further Agencies will let know the Lines in which they are interested the information will be forwarded to Londen sad passed" on to interested parties as op portunity offers.
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