ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
IIS READYO of Pother
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that-
share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th June, 1933, at rate of 1/4.1/2 per Dollars.
THE DIVIDEND will be payable TUESDAY, 8th on and after AUGUST, 1933, at the offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants,
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be closed from MONDAY, 24th JULY to SATUR. DAY, 5th AUGUST (both days inclusive), during which period, no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
L. N. MURPHY, Acting Chief Manager. '.
Hong Kong, 11th July, 1933,
HONG KONG FOOTBALL
THE
ASSOCIATION.
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THE Annual General Meeting will be held in the Hong Kong
Sports Club (by kind permission).
pm.
Friday, 14th July, 1933, at 6
G. T. MAY,
'Hoa Secretary,
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CHINA MOTOR BUS COMPANY,
LIMITED,
NOTICE OF REMOVAL. ·
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that we have Removed to 122, whitfield Road, Causeway Bay. Hong Kong, 7th July, 1983.
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A BONG KONG OF 12TH JULY, 1933.
FROM ANTWERP,LONDON, GIBRAL
TAR. MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORT SAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
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oach Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be oblined as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goode will be landed here
nales Instructions have been given to the contrary Six Hours before arrival of the Steamer.
Goods not cleared within 8 days, în- oloding date of arrival, will be subject la Fent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by
as is any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the
Godower for examination by the Con signees, and the Company's Surveyor Mesere, Goddard & Dovelas, at 10a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period,
Consignees are specially notified that it is necessary for Revenue Officer to
be present at the examination
damaged dutiable cargo.
of
All Claims against the Steamer must
be presented to the Undersigned on or
before 1st August, 1931, or they wil Got be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown,
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HONG KONG, JULY 14, 1933,
-THE CHINESE NAVAL TROUBLE
LEMON SQUASH
BANISHING THE
DEPRESSION
People say that owing to the season of the year, business is
still
* News and Views ★
Tine and Sweetness,
ed outside their own countries num-
was engaged with five only-tw
TO REFORM THE CHINESE NAVY
And Resist The Japanese
The telegram began by mying that with the lost of the north-eastern provinces and the utter lack of authorities. resistance by the · responsible the north-eastern aquadron was in pitiable plight. The naval officers are most eager to serve the country by fighting, the enemy, but having lost their naval base and homes they simply could not do anything.
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dead in Hong Kong. This may When the town block at Kandy, bered 2. Of these, Great Britain be so but is Hong Kong doing its Ceylon, stopped suddenly, investi sloops and two destroyers for Fer- best to meet this depression?gation disclosed that the bees had tugal and a flotilla leader for Yugo-
improving the shining hours, Could not a little more enterprise They had invaded the tower udslavia, Italy, in contrast, had or be shown by one or other of the clogged the' works with honey. ders for 16 destroyers, submarines,
CANTON, July 13. staple industries here. In a city New and Better Banants!
sloops, and motor-launches for HIGH Saval officers of the Haichi,
Haihain and Shaoho Argentina, Greece, Persia, Ruma-
have many thousand miles away the
nia, and Turkey, Japan is alea to issued a circular telegram explain- Hoteliers have pulled off (and are been discovered here which promises for supplies of rubber and other joined the Canton squadron.
Trinidad. A new bangna has build vessels for Brazil, in returning why they left Tsingtao and pulling off) about the] to meet export trade requirements. cleverest ramp of modern times, including the ability to withstand raw materials. The city was depressed beyond reasonably rough handling.. Its The British Film Institute. words, so over the bar one even-Anvour is said to be better than the
already known.varieties. At a na- It has ing a number of hoteliers met turalist's meeting at which the dis-throughout the world, about 50
·been estimated that, and the conversation turned on covery was announced, it was stat-million people visit the cinema the subject Bad Trade."" ed that the Trinidad Department of every week, and that of these not Agriculture is testing the new bana. less than 20 million are in Great After a little consideration itn. Shipments of bananas have so Britain. No means of popular en was decided to run a "World far been purely experimental, and tertainment, except possibly radio, Beonomic Conference," the iden the fruit have been mostly Gross in any way comparable in its
Michel variety.
general appeal to masses of people. of course was laughed at by some
In some countries the State inter of the members, but as soon as
ests itself greatly in filin matters the Government officials got to At the recent annual meeting in control the exhibition of films. But and even attempts to guide and hear of this, it very soon be London of the National Fetheration in England the State does not in reform the Chinese navy and start came obvious that The World Economic Conference
were almost as many unofficial visi- the part of the English Govern-against Japanese aggression." ing to be a big thing, anyway fora, from the 5,000 branches. Since ment has often been criticised, and from the Hoteliers' point of view. the movement was founded in 1815 attempts have been made, without The overworked
Government its leaders have enrolled 300,000 success, to encourage a thorough
members. und officials were all anxions for an
its membership State control. In the characteris economical holiday and before than its numbers, however, is the has now been reached, and it has steadily increases More important tie English manner compromise lang, no less than 100 states enthusiasm with which the branches taken the form of a Film Institute large and small, decided to attend have tackled a large number of pro- this conference. The Shippingblems in rural areas. They have Library of Films. lines gave their approval and the centres, unemployed training clas developed bandicrafts and thrift col-webs in the various state ses, and small allotments; they are cabine were removed. State working for purer milk supplies, apartments were in heavy de-schemes for the preservation of and they are supporting various mand, as it is an axiom never to existing and the creation of new represent the general public, three be forgotten that state officials amenities for the rural workman. must exist in State cabins and apartments.
was go-
Women's Institutes.
of Women's Institutes, in addition tarforthere is not even an official to the 4,000 delegates present, there censorship. This alot attitude on
No More Smoke!
The new Film Institute will func tion entirely without Government subsidy or control. It council will chairman, and of these there will consist of nine members and a
south," the telegram said.
The only alternative is to come "Wo are in Canton not as a result of of a great principle. We desire to personal animosity or dispute but
'really sustained resistance
Admiral Kiang Si Yuan, compan
The telegram was signed by Rear dant of the squadron, Captain Yin Hsiung Hub, commanding the Hai- manding the Haihsin, and Com chi, Captain Kwan Chi Chow, com- mander Yang Chao. Lun, of the training ship, Shaoho.
"We really don't know what is the mission of the three Nanking. cruisers in southern waters, declar ed Admiral Kiang, Si Yunn com menting on the arrival of the Ning-
hai Haiyung and Yatsen in the South China coast.
A TALE OF CHINA'S FLOODS
"DANGERS OF EUROPEAN HELPFULNESS."
the film industry, and three the He said he had not received any general interests of Education. Its wireless report from the three Nan- main object will be to encourage the king vessels, nor were any represen- Sheffield An innovation in development of the cinematograph tatives sent to Canton to report on Now, all the Hong Kongities smoke prevention has been brought as a means of entertainment and their movements and reasons for will immediately say, "What on to a high state of efficiency by a instruction. In connection with its coming south. earth has that to do with us?" Sheffield firm. Applied to locomo-work all forms of censorship will be "Since General Chiang Kai Shek Simply this, that all the Hoteliers tives and to marine boilers on tug-barred. It will form a library, of has dominated the central authori should foregather and decide on smoke is claimed. The apparatus an entirely unofficial manner, it" and sits by losing the north- boats, complete elimination of black films of permanent interest and, in ties," Admira! Kiong continued. a world conference here. What is easily fitted, requires no structu- will advise and encourage pro-eastern provinces without a strug- will be the subject? Any will ral alteration to the interior of the ducers and all who are seriously in-gle, we do not wish to be placed un- do, preferably,
boiler or interference with the dues terested in the films. In this way, der his control."-Central Press. Whether the
or grates, and is automatic. Chinese lemon sole is best fed on
The it is hoped, the cinema in England system is one of introducing steam will receive disinterested and useful bren or mash.”
driven secondary air over the fire advice which will tend to the gen Obviously, the subject is a heated and meets the volatile gases
in such a manner that it is pre-eral improvement of films. stupid one, but that does not as they are given off from the fresh Helping Agriculture. mutter as was recently found in fired coal with considerable turbu that far off city. The point to lence. Black smoke is never form- One important branch of the acti- attend to is that the Hoteliersed, the efficiency of the boiler is in-vities of the Institutes is the retail creased owing to better combustion, market which has been opened for remain in conference to discuss er fuel has been possible, thus ad- duce. Such a market now existe in must see that the sob-committees and in many cases the use of cheap the sale of local agricultural pro-
There are plenty of novels now-a- somewhat smaller subjects, as for ding to the econo, y obtained. Pach fifty centres, and the mem- instance the effect of bran and
bera of the Institutes are carefully days about China and Yellow mash on the eye, fin and tail of
studying the best marketing met. Flood," by William Ashley tells The Warship Trade.
importance of the rural worker was hods. At the recent conference the quite convincingly of the adventures of an American engineer who is Agriculture, Major Walter Eliot, in periodie Chinese floods, if this emphasised by the Minister of caught with his son in one of the
gates. After giving a number of dramatic rediscovery by one of his the course of a speech to the dele adventures of this son until his figures relating the vast quanti Great Britain, he pointed out that the agricultural industry is still the mainstay of the country. After more than a century and a half of industrial development, the dairy industry in Great Britain to-day employs twice as many people as the woollen industry, twice as many as the iron and steel industry, and between three and four times the number engaged in shipbuilding.
needed to police its waters. But trade in heavily armed men-of- war is another matter.
Not & little South American history turns on the adventures of the two big dreadnoughts purchased by Brazil in 1908, and which have proved big factors in the political troubles of that country. similar ships in 1914, and, after The Argentine acquired two
the war, so as to keep things pro- perly balanced, Chile was allowed to purchase H.M.S. Canada, öne of the capital ships of the Grand the sole, the pip, skin and rind The report that Russia is nego Fleet. Since then the South of the lemon. All this is written for the construction of four cruisers tiating with Italian shipbuilders American war of naval arma- ments has been stayed, and the time, we cannot help recommend der of the way in which Italian with due apology, at the same and a large submarine is a remin- warships in question have beening the ideas to our enterprising yards have taken the place of those busier in politics than in battles.
of Great Britain in catering for ties of foodstuffs imported into the production, of war craft for Powers which are unable to build their own. Before the War, Bri tish-built vessels were to be found in the service of foreign navies all over the world, as we were, the 're cognized workshop for this purpose. A table in the recent issue of "Bras- sey's Naval and Shipping Annual" ahows that during 1932 the foreign ships building, ordered, or complet
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hotel organisations as a sure way of overcoming the depression.
CHINESE GIRL KILLED
IN MOTOR BUS ACCIDENT.
In Europe it is difficult to imagine fleets out of control; steaming into harbour with a President-elect board, and landing him under cover of its guns. And yet we have only to remember that both the German and Russian revolutions were precipitated by trouble in the
A very distressing motor bus ne- fleet." So far Chinese WILT-
vident occurred in Pokfulam Rond ships have played a minor part on Wednesday and as a result a in the civil wars. There have seventeen-year-old gil, Hui Yuk been no sea battles, though river aged 13, Hui Wan Lan, is ring in Chan was killed while another girl gunboats have sometimes figured a serious condition in the Govera
fairly prominently, as, for ex- ment Civil Hospital, ample when the Canton flotilla In his report to the Police, the helped to hold up the Iron-driver of the bus, Ng Kam Chuen, stated that he was driving bus No. 490 downt Pokfulam Road at 1.55 p.m. when the vehicle skidded and mounted the footpath.
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new
The two girls who were, on the footpath, were caught between the vehicle and some stalls in front of a akop. The girls were badly crush- anashed od while the wooden stalls were The shop window was also broken.
The injured girls were picked up and taken to the Government Civil Hospital whess the elder succumbed to her injuries shortly after 5 p.m.
The recent mutiny in the sides" attempt in 1929 to cross Chinese"
navy is a reminder that the North River and advance on wurships can be exceedingly dan- Canton. gerous, not only to foes, but also The three rebel cruisers to friends, if they are not kept from the north of China were dis- properly under control. This is tinctly lucky to fall in with a a commonplace, of statesmanship typhoon instead of the and has been demonstrated on Japanese-built cruiser Ninghai, innumerable occasions in the which, with the powerful sloop YONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-
Bamed Vessel are hereby formed st The many disarmament Yat Sen and the older Haiyang, that their Goods are being landed and conferences of the last decade, as lier consorts would probably placed at the us in the Hong Kong having this in mind, frequently have sunk them as easily as von and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com nibbled at the question of the Spee sank the pany's Godowns at Kowloon, where each
obsolete Consignment will be sorted out Mark trade in warships to powers British cruisers that gave battle by Mark and Delivery can be obtained with unstable governments, but off Coronel in the early days of the Goods are landed.
Optimal Goods will be landed here the difficulties of the matter, and the Great War. From a political. antess instructions have been given to the the complexity of the interests point of view that might have contrary Bix Hours before arrival of the involved; have prevented any been the best solution but as it Steamer.
There is free trade in warships; survived to become a further bone to those of the South American kind of international agreement. in the rebel" three ships have
in fact, by an odd irony of fate, of contention between Canton | Republics, and having power to they provide the last relic of the and Nanking. If the Ning Hai spread devastation in any sea
so and the Yat Sen had been more port.
Goods not cleared within 6 days
including date of arrival will be subject to Rest
No Fire Insurance will be effected by
ua in, say case whatever.
two
other way
round. It is not hard to imagine the cumplications that might arise if Chinn possessed ships comparable
Local and General
One case of diphtheria was noti; ¡ fed on Wednesday..
Ngan Ngau, 7, son of an amal employed at the Palace Hotel, sustained serious injuries when he fell from the servants' quarters at the hotel. He was
Bent to the Kowloon Hospital.
Mr. J. M. Jack, of No. 6, Essex Crescent, Kowloon Tong, was fined $8 by Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, when he was in the street on June 21 without a summoned for allowing his dog out
muzzle.
According to a report made to the Police by an unemployed Chinese, he and a woman were on the second floor of 59, Belchers Street, when a knock came at the door.
With
father's friends.
These adventures include an es
cape from a guild of murderous beggars, an adoption by an old shopkeeper, a narrow escape from murder, and an even narrower escape from execution (quite un- deserved) as a revolutionary. His father's adventures are in their way quite as striking, one of the episodes being an illuminating illustration of the case with which revolutions are contrived in China and a cynical commentary on the dangers of European helpfulness. But crowded as the book is with incident, its chiel fault is not a melodramatic excess, for this the author evades with great ability; there is nothing in any way forced or far-fetched about it.
Too Episodic.
The fault of the book lies rather in what it fails to tell. It is too the words "We are Police," aixpisodic, and only acquires a sub- jective continuity from the reader's men entered and accused him of anxiety to discover whether the stealing a gold watch and chain. search for Little Bill is to be a The robbers stayed on the floor for success or a failure. Still, the ten minutes and decamped with jewellery and money to the value sidelights on Chins and the Chinese are kept properly subordinate to the of $37.16. They robbed the man of
main theme; in fact, they give add- his watch. The police regard the
ed force to it, for every further de report as a very doubtful one."
tail emphasises the horror of Little Bill's position, lost and indistin.. guishable in such a vast nation, and the hopelessness of his father's un- remitting search for him.
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Wong Tai, a workman at 'the Naval Dockyard, was yesterday fined $50 or in default six weeks imprisonment, for the larceny of ebonite rings from the Dockyard. Inspector McLellan said that the rings were found on defendant when stable at the entrance to the dock he was searched by the Indian con yard. He was again searched at the police station, and 25 more rings were found in his left sock. He had apparently made themi him- self, and was taking them to be polished and sold as finger rings.
A quantity of unmanifested mis cellaneous cargo, found aboard the Douglas Steamship'e a.. Hai Ning was confiscated by order of Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court yesterday, on the application of Acting Inspector E. Carpenter The cargo consisted of dried fish, bananas, clogs, singlets, etc.
Master A. Fraser, aged nine years, of 1, Tung Chung Building, Nathan Road, was treated at the But there is nothing to Kowloon Hospital on Wednesday ardently by Victorian radicals, powerful ships, commanded by prevent the purchase of such after being bitten in the arm and The many friends of Mr. Alec The nominal argument in defence determined officers, an attempt vessels. Moreover, the problem aide by a dog, owned by Mr. W
Finter, who was well-known in Hong of the traffic in warships, and might have been made to rush of the sale of bombing planes, of
Kong some three or four years ago other armaments, is that coun- the Bocca Tigris forts and over- poison gas and all the most
when stationed here with the China tries which have not been indus- awe Canton, Fortunately noth- up-to-date appliances of war to
Tau Kok for the usual observation. Fleet, will be pleased to hear that it is necessary for a Revenue Officer to trialised would be left defenceless ing of the sort has happened and nations without stable and res-
he haa since taken up a stage be present at the examination to
Falling while attempting to alight | carrer and is at present appearing damaged dotiable cargo..
if they were unable to buy from there is a chance that the affair ponsible governments is bound to from a moving tram-car in Johnston at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, other countries; and, alternative- will subside, and the three
arise if not forestalled by wise Road on Wednesday, a Chinese in a very successful play Wild ly that free trade eliminates the cruisers from the North will come statesmanship. These are harding head injuries and was removed tional acting ability and whilst at woman, Mok Hau Haing, sustain Justice." Mr. Finter has excap-
Damaged Packages must be left in the
Godowns for examination by the Con- signees, and the Company's Sureayors. MEER, GODDARD & DOUGLAR, at 10.
on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period,
Consignees are specially notified that
All Claims against the Steamer most be presented to the Undersigned on oz before 1st August, 1933, or they will not be recognized.
free trade doctrines held
necessity for arsenals and dock-to 'Canton, just as an extra yards in every land. There is squadron might be transferred something in the plea, and a from the British Atlantic Fleet government should certainly be to the Mediterranean, or the [998 allowed to place orders, for ships (Continued at foot of next cal.)
No Off will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown. LAUKINNON, MAUKENZIE &
Main Agentur Hong Kong, 12th July, 1833.
Forilda, 216, Nathan Road. The animal was seized and sent to Ma
tines and private firms are not to to the Government Civil Hospital Hong Kong appeared in two of the be blamed if they do business for treatment. Another woman, Hong Kong Amateur Dramaue open to them. It is not their also received hend injuries through Club's production namely And So duty to take responsibility for car in Causeway Bay, She was life of Samuel Pepys, and " Art and being knocked down by a motor- To Bed," the play based on the political complications.
sent to the hospital,
Mrs. Bottle."
In such a situation it was inevit-
able that the happy ending could only be contrived by means of a coincidence, but the reader's sym- completely won that he welcomes pathies have by this time been so this as a happy release rather than a clumsy cutting of the knot.
We shall be lucky if we do not liye to see the statue of Charles the First removed by "private enter prise to make room for public lavatories. — Lady Oxford and de- quith.
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Local
The Rev. A. D. Stewart who is shortly leaving the Colony after having been here for over twenty- tea party by the Cathedral Council eight years was entertained to a
yesterday.
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