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hare This Day admitted Mr. C. D'Almada e' Castro and Mr. H. A. de Barros Botolh, Solicitors, as my partners with me in my busi ness and practice of a Solicitor which will in future be carried on beretofore at David House, No. 67, Des Voeux Road, Coutral, First Floor, under the style or firm' name 'of Dzo D'ALKID) & Co.".
LEO'D'ALMADA ₫ CASTRO, Solicitor.
Hong Kong, 1st day of July, 138.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that HENRY HUMPHREYS. bas by mutual agreement retired from the Firm of JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON as from thei 30th day of June, 1933, and that his interest and responsibility therein has ceased as from that day.
JOHN D, HUMPHREYS
& SON, :
Hong Kong, 1st July, 1983,
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the undersigned have this day established myself under the
firm name of “Ģ. Ú. da Roza & Co,"
as Stock and Sharebrokers at No. 9, Ice House Street.
"Dated this 1st day of July, 1983,
G. U. DA ROZA,
Stock and Share Broker, Member, Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
NOTICE.
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I here the
the undersigned have this day
firm name of "Y, M. Eo & Co." as
Stock and Sharebrokers, at the
National Bank Building, 2nd floor.
Dated this lat day of July, 1958..
Y.. M, LO,
Stock and Share Broker, Member, Hong Kong Stock Exchange:
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HONG KONG, JULY 4, 1933.
THE S.S. SHENGAN PIRACY
return for the
ALLEGED COAL SHORTAGE AT S'HAI
EDEN'S STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF COMMONS
News and Views *
Another U.S. Record?
A total of 71,000 bills were pass- ed during this year's sessions of the many American legislatures. I the taxpayer had to foot those bills, no doubt he would do it with a kick.
LONDON, July 3. IN the House of Commons Captain
Eden said he had no informa tion of the alleged threatened coal shortage at Shanghai owing to the interruption of railway traffic he.Progress! tween Tientsiti and Shanhaikuan, but in view of inconvenience and harm to British interests caused by interference with the railways, the British Chargé d'Affairs at Tokyo had been instructed to represent informally to the Japanese Govern- ment the importance of the re- sumption of traffic
He had been informed that a certain number of trains were now running daily from the mines.- Reuter
PEIPING-MUKDEN RAILWAY
REPAIRS TO ROAD UP TO
TANGSHAN -
of
RESTRICTION OF RUBBER GROWING
D. E. Indies Willing
To Discuss Scheme
Invisible Ray at "The Dogs,"
Science in its most ultra-modern manifestation is now to be applied, to greyhound racing at a London track. A prominent feature this track, will be a huge "stop- EVEN IF NOT 100 PER CENT watch" with a dial six feet in dia. meter. Immediately the trap for
PRACTICABLE the doge is raised the watch, by an Under the Religious Orders Bill electrical contact, is started, and in Spain, the operation of schools it then ticks off the seconds until DOCTOR Bernard the retired
MEDAN, July 3, by the Catholic Church is forbid the first greyhound flashes
Dutch East Indies Director of den and school property is confie the winning line. In crossing the Agriculture, when interviewed de- ented. In October a new public dog breaks an invisible ray project clared that the Dutch East Indies school system begins with only ed across the track, and this auto- Government viewpoint in regard to nonclerics as officors and teachers.matically causes the watch to stop rubber restriction had not chang- registering. The device will noted, but the circumstances had so only ensure accurate timing but altered in recent years that the will also broadcast the information Government would now consider a instantaneously to the spectators. restriction scheme even if not a hundred per cent. practicable,- Reuter.
Insolublei
"Has the professor had his breakfast yet" asked the proprie tress of the boarding-house.
"Don't know, mum," replied the maid.
"You don't know " echoed the woman, angrily. "Go up and ask him, then."
The maid shrugged her shoulders helplessly. "I have asked him," she said, "but he doesn't know, either "
A Modern Telescope.
Worcester, S. Af-Building of a PRIPING, July 3,
ginnt telescope acclaimed to be the TWO trains were waiting. in largest in the Southern Hemis-
Tientsin station overnight to
phere, near Bloemfontein, Orange proceed to-day "along the Peipinged after two years' work at a cost Free State, Kas just been complet Mukden Railway as far as Tang of £30,000. shan, to repair the road and com- munications
יי
It has been erected by the Boy- It is hoped this will lead to a
den Station of Harvard Univer resumption of the normal traffic assity, U.S.A., weighs 20 tons and is far as Tangshan to-morrow, and fitted with a 60-inch reflecting mir- that later the service will be ex
ror. Under favourable conditions tended as
far as Chinwangtao. the telescope is able to bring an Renter..
object 2,000 times nearer the eye, and can photograph the light of a candle for any distance up to 4,000
"
IRREGULARS ISSUE AGREEMENT REACHED OVER LUANTUNG
PEIPPING, July 3. IT is reported in reliable Chinese been reached between the Chinese circles that an agreement has and Japanese Authorities whereby the Manchukuo irregulars under the Japanese agres to withdraw the command of General Li Chi Chun, to some distance from the Peiping Mukden Railway. Only unarmed Chinese guards will be allowed to travel on all trains when is resumed. the railway service to Shanhaikuan
Both the Chinese and foreign communities are watching develop-
are
WIMBLEDON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
CRAWFORD BEATS HUGHES
LONDON, July 3.
miles.
Switzerland "Day Return.”
отег
A striking illustration of the speed of air transport is afforded by a summer service which has just been inaugurated between London" and Switzerland. An Imperial Airways machine leaves the air sta- tion at Croydon in the early morning and reaches Basle at lunch time, where it connects with a daily return service on the same route. The liner which makes the return journey does not leave Swit- zerland until 4.45 in the afternoon, so that it is now possible for peo ple in London to travel there, back home before bedtime, A "day spend three hours in Basle, and be
return" to Switzerland is some thing new in travel.
False Finger Nalist
RECONSTRUCTION IN CHINA
CHINESE PROPOSALS TO LEAGUE COUNCIL
GENERA, July 3. THE Council this morning discuss-
ed a request by the Chinese Government submitted by T. V. Soong for technical collabration of League with a view for execution: the Chinese Government and the
as soon as possible, of prepared plans for the reconstruction of cer- tain model provinces.
Supporting the request Dr. Wel-
ger nails, lacquered to tone with to act as liaison officer between the Detachable made-to-measure-fin lington Koo said the idea was the appointment of a technical expert the evening gown to be worn, are League and the National Economi the latest araze of some, Londoncal Council in order to co-ordinate women of fashion. These finger the work of various experts in nails are the exclusive speciality assisting China, of a firm of Bond-street jewellers The of high repute. They hold the Avenal, who attended for the first Secretary General, M. Best Sellers in London.
world rights of the invention. time in this capacity, suggested the Two books were called for at Barbaric as the fashion may pappointment of a small committee several bookshops more than the pear to be, women are coming for to consider the request. rest during last month: Dr. Perward in large numbers. to order ey Dearmer's "Christianity and the sets of the new coloured finger her to the Council. in supporting.. Herr Keller, the German mem- Crisis" and Professor Houseman's nails, blue, green, red, mauve, and the proposal of a committee said, try. "Lord Riddell's "War Diary' their jewellery. These little colour portance of the questions involved "The Name and Nature of Poe- so on, to match their dresses or it was desirable owing to the im- is, of course, in huge demand, and ed sheaths, which are shaped to the that Henry Channon's The Ludwige of beauty Charles William's "Bacon," with fingere, are a substitute for the should include representatives of the committee perhaps spactalist's lacquer, and states outside the League. Bavaria," testify to the continued have the merit of being always The President of the Council, the taste for historical biography ready in immaculate condition when Mexican representative M. Najera, "Peter Abelard" is still first fa seconds to put on and even less to before taking a decision regarding In fiction Miss Helen Waddell's required. They take only twenty said he would consult his colleagues vourits. But Dr. Cronin'e "Grand take off. Canary," Mr. C. S. Forester's
the composition of the committee which he approved, on principle.--- "The Gun," Mr. Neil Bell's "The
Reuter. Lord of Life," and a first novel, by Miss Elizabeth Cambridge, Hos- tages to Fortune," all go well. ***
Curiously enough, one of the most difficult shades to reproduce in the detachable lacquered nails is the delicate flesh tint chosen by
nature,
Local and General
The Colony had a clean bill of Sunday. health for the three days ending
The marriage is announced to take place shortly of Lieut. G. D. H. Flowerdew, R.A. Mess, Lyeemun, to Miss Sheila Mabel Bishop, of The Hong Kong Benevolent So | Woodstock Road, Bedford Park ciety acknowledges with grateful! London. thanks a donation of $5 from Mr.
and Mr. E.J.E. in memory of Mrs.
Glendinning.
the sheer desperation of neces. sity. that in America those callous Nor can it be forgotten
ghouls, the gangsters, have been largely suppressed. What better field for further activities and easy gain than the China Coast? No doubt the antecedents of the men arrested for this utrocity ill be carefully examined, and it will be interesting to learnment in the situation with interest. The foreigners want their cummer how they came to plan so horrible holidays, while the Legations and an outrage.
their guards want to make their Until this incident no Euro-usual summer transfer to Peitaiho.
The Chinese Authorities pean had figured, in modern anxious for the rehabilitation of the hitherto at YAUMATI SUB STA. It is no cynicism to say that the times, in Chinese piracy. Pre-recent war area-Router. TION, 474 Nathan Road, Tel. 56375, surprising thing about the piracy, sumably the guild is a close one, will be transferred to KOWLOON of the 8.8. Shengan is that some- and foreigners are not admitted. TONG SUB STATION, TELE. thing on these lines has not bop-Piracy, however, has its business PHONE Nos. 58044, 58045, where a day and night servise for Emer.pened before. By extraordin-side and is financed by wealthy. gancy Repaire will be maintained. arily good luck the outrage failed men wanting a
but it came near to success. The initial outlay, which is often no By Order,
buccaneers seized the ship, they small sum. Would so enterpris had the necessary papers and ing a financial group turn down were evidently prepared to imper- the services of an Al Capone or sonate the men they had murder-a Jack Diamond, no single-hand. ed, to sail the ship to America, ed ruffian; but a powerful lender and, in some obscure port to dis-with experience of organising pose of both vessel and cargo. and conducting crime on a big But for a piece of bad seaman-scale? ship they might well be far out Chinese piracy, of which the to sea, the first stage of the crime altacks on foreign ships are 6% FIRST MORTGAGE DEBEN. accomplished. The idea was pre-side-line, concerns itself mainly sumably that the Shengan with preying on local craft. It would be posted as missing, and can only be suppressed by the the chance taken that at their Chinese Government. The diffi- destination in America few ques-culties of the task are great, for tions would be asked, with a good it is not easy to eradicate what bargain in the offing. Had the has been regarded as a more or attempt succeeded, or come close less legitimate enterprise, and, as enough to success to suggest that at Bias Bay, is pursued by a large such a crime could be brought to proportion of the population as fruition, ou doubt many similar naturally as heading hunting in schemes would have been set on Papua and Borneo. The Chinese foot by unscrupulous adventurers. authorities have many thinge on Fortunately it failed, and it is to their hands, but this anomalous 30 TRE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG day morning with returning from The Interest, less Income Tax taken to render the casual disposal their special attention, before it be hoped that precautions will be survival of ancient times needs of ships and cargoes impossible. is" modernised,"
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IN very hot weather, Crawford beat Hughes in the 5th round of the Men's Singles 8/1, 6/1, 7/5. 6/3, 6/1.
Cochet beat Stoeffen 3/9, 6/4,
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1.
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MIXED DOUBLES Anki and Misa Feltham beat Billington and Miss Knapp 8/2, 014-Router.
CORRESPONDENCE
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THE CANTON FLYING ACCIDENT
Arrested on the Praya in posses sion of a quantity of illicit opium, found strapped round his legs, a alternative of Ave months by Mr. Chinese was fined 8000 with the
Schofield yesterday.
THE
CHARHAR MUDDLE
SOONG ASKED TO DRIVE OUT FENG
PEIPING, July 2. GENERAL Fong Yu Hsiang, Com- mander-in-Chief of the People's anti-Japanese allied forces, is op posing the Nanking demand to cease anti-Japanese resistance, and the result is that the situation in Charhar province has become pre-
carious.
!
An elderly Chinese, ex-interpreter of the S.C.A. who is on pension;
General Song Chih Yuan, com- was thanked by Mr. Wynne-Jones mander of the 20th army, has been in the Central Police Court yeater- asked by Nanking to drive out.. day, for his assistance in a case in which an unemployed man was er superior officer, and to resume General Feng Yu Heiang, his form- the property of a resident at the har provincial government. Soong charged with the larceny of a coat, his post as chairman of the Char Chung Kwok Boarding House. The fears that if he obeys Nanking's S.C.A. ex-official assisted in inter-orders, civil war in that province For placing 100 pounds of sugarpreting a difficult dialect. Sentence will be inevitable.. on board the Chak Sang without of six weeks was passed on accused. agents of the vessel, Ng Man was the permission of the master the
fined $100 or six weeks by Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
In the circumstances, General Soong deems it impossible to res -Arrested by Sergeant C. Pile in turn to Charhar at present and a stairway in Belchers Street, in fails to understand why Nasking is possession of a pane of glass, a so persistent. in wing force to cust Chinese yesterday admitted taking | General Feng-Central Press the glass but denied breaking and
Charges of snatching a handbag entering the flat. Inspector Houri from a Chinese lady in Nathan han stated there was no proof of SUMMARY OF NEWS Road, and returning from banish-how it was stolen, Defendant had ment, were preferred against a in his possession a chisel and a Chinese before Mr. Butters at Kow.¦ small iron bar, A fine of $25 or man was given one year's hard defendant is to be sent back to the loon Magistracy yesterday. The one month's gaol was inflicted and
labour.
eöuntry.
Sentence of a year's hard labour was passed on a Chinese yesterday who was charged before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yester
banishment, I was stated that defendant was sent away from the Colony in 1931.
Locals.
An expulsion order was yesterday made by Mr. Wynne-Jones against Singutulla Minnigualimoff, a young Canton, July 3-Three fighting Russian trader, charged with enter planes purchased from public sub-ing the Colony without a valid
They were tested yesterday by death in attempting to escape from scriptions have arrived here and passport.
Page 10. assembled at the local aerodrome. Details of how Chinese met his DAILY PRESS."]
serial officers and found satisfactory Police custody by jumping over a in every respect. Another airplane retaining wall were revealed when SIR, I wish to make some cor- and made rections to the report sent in by
known as City Schools!! will be a Coroner's Inquiry was conducted The incident reflects the times thereby ten times more formid-your correspondent Canton con-
Essembled to-morrow for service in connection with the tragedy at. in which we live. It is a re-able.
When the M.M. liner Chenon with the local air force. The sub- Central Magistracy yesterday, Full cerning the flying accident onceaux arrives in Hong Kong to-day, scription netted $120,000. The test particulars on page 7. minder that Europeans in dis-
Saturday,
she will not continue to Shanghai; fight will take place to-morrow The Yule San Street verandah 'tress on the China Coast are not
He makes the statement that the but will return to Marseilles via morning and will be witnessed by collapse inquiry was continued be cause of the accident was due to Saigon to replace the temporarily the enthusiastic contributors.fore course of the hearing it was 23 0. o.merely the old type of indolent
"engine trouble" whereas the disabled Aramia. The Aramis will Uentral Press.
Mr. Schofield yesterday and in beachcomber, for these miscreants
motor was running perfectly at the be ready to sail from Hong Kong time; he also states that the fall i
intimated that the Coroner, jury was about 200 feet.
for Marseilles on Tuesday, July 18.
in the 2, will be:-
ON 220 DIBENTURES;
d
Per Coupon (Gross)
12; 0.
Less Tax at 6/- in the
8 0.
Net Amount Payable
9, 0.
On 2100 DraBRATURES ?'
Fer Coupon (Gross) Less Tax at 5/-in the 2
16. .0
Net Amount Payable 22. 6. 0.
OF 2500 DIBENZURRA :
Per Coupon (Grosa) Lees Tax at 57-in the &
OUR WATER SUPPLY
RAIN ENDS ALL TROUBLES,
heavily,
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at least had a courage and enter The very welcome rainfall we prise that might have been put had over the week-end made it I happened to be an eye-witness
possible to raise all water restric of the entire flight, from the take murder is suspected by the to better use. There are bun rions last Saturday when the off to the crash. At no time, did Police authorities, consequent to dreds of men worth a job, but servoirs, held a total of 233 million the engine falter. According to the finding of the dead body of a Net Amount Payable £11, 5.0 in one of the thousands of busi-
who have been szed, or involved gallons with the Aberdeen and expert airmen on the spot, then Tak iron wars shop in Pitt Street, Chinese at the back of the Kwong Pokfulum reservoirs overflowing fortunate accident was due to the Fayment will be made in Local ness failures that mark the track Yesterday the measurements and at too low a speed, In trying wounds, which had probably been para plane flying at too low an altitude Xaumati. The head bore marks of Currency at the Demand Buying Rate of the economic storm out East, showed a storage of 1,270 million to make a sharp left banking turn inflicted with a chopper.
centage of the Day the Coupons It is not suggested that the Treaty ports are swarming with men ready to turn cut-throat be cause they have lost
job
presented.
By Order,
THE KAILAN MINING
SISTRATION,
B. J. NATHAN:
Cremeral Manag
Quite a large gathering assembled and counsel. engaged in the case in the lounge of the Peninsula Hotel would visit the scene of the in- Page 7. last Sunday evening to listen to the irident. first of the Season's Symphonic Three matches in the Lawn Boy Concert which, through the courtesy Open Singles Championship were Hotels, Ltd., was provided by the beat D. famjahn 21-14, J. Wother- of the Hong Kong and Shanghai decided yesterday. U M. Omar
under the leadership of Mr, A. Gell- and A. E. Contes severely trounced massed orchestras of the Company spoon lost to A. V. Ramsay by 18-21
man The items which comprised J. Ferguson to the tune of 21-7... the programme were excellently
Page: 10. Chinese boy was fatally injured rendered and were enthusiastically At a meeting of hockey ofthu when knocked down by a motor received by the audience, the last masts held at the Y.M.C.A. yester car at Tai Ning Street, Shaukiwan, mumber, “Land of Hope and day it was decided to form an As- yesterday. It is said that at the Glory" by Elgar, ever a popular | sociation locally to be afiliated to time the car was overtaking an- favourite, had to be repeated to the Association at Home. One of other thicle in Main Street and satisfy the demand and brought to the rules of the local Association failed to plear to led when he ap a close a splendid evening's enter will be that Clubs which are mem peared expectedly from ado, tainment Another concert wil be here will not be allowed to compete
for trophies
Page: 10.
mum capacity of the reservoirs, enough speed to carry the plane ENDANG
but, there must be a minority the ready to embark upon queer and questionable adventures outi
Kowloon Supply.
nland, on Wednesday, storeMBIOS
purk supply waą given, had uncresssch
illion gallons, Os millon
result that the machine nosed downward in an inside spin. Had there been suficient altitude, it might have been possible to have got out of the spinYours faith
DISINTERESTED.
given hext Sunday.