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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG CRICKET
LEAGUE.
TOTICE is hereby given that the N
Annual Meeting will be held:
at the Sanitary Board room, P. O Building (by kind permission) on Monday, 25th September, 1933 45 3:15 p..
A. II. MADAR, Hon. Secretary.
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THE HONG · KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SISTE EXTRA RACE
MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER, 1933, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung ut 7:30 pm.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE. Members are notified that they and their Ladies st wear their Badges prominently displayed,
No One without a Badro will be admitted to the Members' Enclostre.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $3.00 for Gentlemen and 83.00 for Ladies (Both incled ug Tax) are ab tainable through the SECRETARY apon the personal application of a Member, sich Member to be responsible for all visiture introduced by him, and for Payment of All Chite, etc.
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor, Gloucester filling (Tel. 27794). will clost at 12 O'Clock Noon.
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Badges admitting Eachenre will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
Oa No Pretext will Children be permitted in sither Enclosure during the Meeting.
Tiffins are obtainabls at the Clu House provided they are ordered from the No. Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.
PUBLIO ENCLOSURE,
The Price of Admission to the Public Enclosure is $2.00 including Tax, for
all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldier and Sailors in uniform are Bimitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc., will not be pecuitted to operate with iri the Precinets of THE HONG KONG IceKRY CLU during the Race Meeting. By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
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"Hong Kooy, 18th Sept. 1933,
NOTICE.
THE REEL CLUB,
THE eventh Annual General Meeting of the Reel Club will
take place at the Helena May
Institute on Monday, 18th Septem- ber, at 5.15 p.m. All members and prospective members are particularly requested to
uttend. The first
practice of the sea-on will commence
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1933.
IN PRAISE OF GOOD PORT.
No gentleman's cellax Oporto should lack,
For it comforts the brain and it strengthens the back; The lungs it assists, and affords beyond question
best means of promoting digestion. The very
To the car it gives tune, to the eyesight fresh vigour, And the scarecrow expands to a corpulent figure, No medicine, in case of a languid sonsation, Can so pleasantly quicken a slow circulation. It drives the blue devils and sorrows away, And makes a man witty, light hearted and gay: Imparting new fibre and power to the whole, New force to the body, new strength to the soul." And thus it becomes to a weak constitution The Elixir of Life in a state of solution."
AT WATSON'S
FINE PORTS
“SACKVILLE TAWNY"
"VERY DRY TAWNY”
$3.90&$4.80 Per Bottle.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. EST. 1841.
SILVER WEDDING.
the
At St. Joseph's Church, on
16th September. 1908. William, the son of the late William Wotherspoon, of Wishaw, Scot land, to Isabel, daughter of William Imray of Fort Augus-
tus, Scotland.
VERY DRY TAWN
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OBITUARY
Lou Magnolia: Boxing! Referee
New York Sept 17.
“OH, HE WRITES | NO BIG PARADE NEWS SUMMARY
ENGLISH!" A Literary Beggar In Canton
บ
THE death occurred to-day of Lou (From Our Special Correspondent)
Magnolia the famous boxing the st omclated referee, who
1930.- Scott-Sharkey Aght in Reuter.
Fear Of Communist
Uprising
(From Our Special Correspondent)
St. Bishop Hall preached at John's Cathedral, yesterday, the third of his series of Sermóna cn
The How to Read the Gospels. address was entitled "Calvary or Page" 3. Cavalcade"
"Entries for the C.R.C.. Open Canton, Sept. 17. Mixed Doubles Championship of For fear of Communist upria- the Colony, close on September 25. Page 10, Canton, Sept. 17. A literary beggar, able to write ing. the big parade by, students
Probable starters and Jockeys for English and Chinese beautifully, to-morrow in commemoration of the
the September 18, 1931 incident is can- the Sub-Griffins Challenge Cup up- appeared this morning on
The police and military pear on page 7 pavement at Kwong Wai Road and celled.
The programme for the 10th Ex- drew the attention of passers-by. authorities are apprehensive that His writings appeared in chalk the Reds will utilise the demon-tra Race Meeting at Happy Valley and described his plight in both stration to stage a coup d'etat or on October 7.and 10 "appear on
a minor disturbance as they, too, page 10. languages.
The feature of the Happy Valley are most bitter against the in- London. Sept. 18.
vaders and ardent crities of the gallops on Saturday morning was the performance of Mr. Pearce's polley of non-resistance.
Hetman, Amoy, and Jingle are re- ported lame.. Full detalls on page 10.
Capt. Pennington. Killed
4
Beggars who can display their beautiful penmanship in Chinese are often seen in the streets, but record.it is a rare sight to see a mendi- cant scribbling the English langu-
Captain Pennington, an airman with a distinguished war received fatal injuries when his ten seater De Havilland "Dragon" netoplane which he was piloting crashed near Doncaster last even- ing. The aeroplane was taking off when it crashed into a hedge, the under part of the machine being torn away, and the machine wreck ed. There were six passengers in the machine but they either en tirely escaped or were only slightly injured. All had been attending the Doncaster Race meeting and the passengers included Mr. Gordon who Richards, champion jockey, yesterday, won five out of six races in which he rode. Richards has ridden 191 winners this season."
As the flat racing season closes in November he still has a chance of breaking the record of Fred Archer, rode 248 who in the 1883 season winners.
Flying Tragedy At Brooklands
London, Sept. 18:
ADY Clayton, who was an ac- complished amateur pilot, has. died from injuries received at Brooklands, Aerodrome.
She had started her engine and
Instead, each school or college will be represented by five stud age on the sidewalk with all the ents at the memorial service, to- | speed and facility of a school-morrow morning at the Chungahan master writing his lesson on the Memorial Hall but after school
The authorities have received blackboard.
Reds will create is a word that the The impoverished scribe
man. His trouble by denouncing paper re- good looking young "memoirs on the pavement stated alstance against Japanese invasion that he is a native of Fukien and and by winning the support of the received his middle school educa- radical elements. It is suspected tion in Canton. He taught school that several Communist youths in the interior but suddenly pe- have enrolled as students in order came insane. Without work or re-to stir the others for a real latives here, he is in great distress, struggle with the enemy." although his insanity is now gone, He simply wants to beg enough to enable him to return to Amoy.
In their second trial match, Hong" Kong Football Club beat Lincolns 6-4. Their juniors also won against Page 10. the Lincolns by 3-2.
Craigengower C.C. won the Bowls Junior League on Saturday, by de- They are repeating their feating the Civil Service by 19 Page 11. shots.
Home football results and league success of last year.
A summary of business transact- tables will be found on page 10. ed at last week's meeting of the Kowloon Residents' Association ap- During the first trial match of pears on page 11.
warned Newspaper editors are not to publish to-morrow rash re- marks about the Japanese "royal when public teelings "Oh, he writes English," shouted family, small boys and coolies who admir- against Japan will surge high. A the cricket season held at the Kow- ed the penmanship without under-member of the Japanese Consular loon C.C. on Saturday, two new standing what it is all about...
Page 11.
staff told a Chinese municipal om- batsmen were discovered. cial to-day that no one is allowed
The marriage between Mr. A. to make derogatory remarks about the Mikado or his family, who is B. Hamson and Miss Edith May
WHERE CHINESE considered absolutely sacred. Such Wood was solemnised at St. John's
TEA FAILS
a warning in advance is intend- ed for newspaper men and speech makers.
Page 11.
In the three aquatic sports meet- Cathedral on Saturday ings held over the week-end Ave records were broken. including a Colony record. The last feat was accomplished by Mrs. M. J. Mc- the 50 yards Free Style when she clocked 31 seca. dead at the VR.C. Page 2.
Chance To Recapture THE EMPRESS OF Mahon, who set up a new time for
Markets
CANADA
WILS climbing into the cockpit (From Our Special Correspondent) Forced To Return To
when the aeroplane moved for- ward. It was rapidly gathering speed when she fell.
Lady Clayton was carried un-
she died.
The "machine turned turtle. She was 25 years old and" was
Canton. Sept. 17.
If Chinese tea is not dyed with all sorts of colour and is prepared this faiz
staple industry stands
A
Yokohama
Yokohama. Sept. 17. With a depreciated pound the conscious to the hospital, where under hygienic conditions.
The Empress of Canada, which chance to recapture world markets.
on Sept. 15 for next problem was to secure a
This is the advice received by left Yokohama
is she the Honolulu has wirelessed stable rite of currency exchange with foreign countries, especially the widow of Sir Robert Clayton, local tea merchants from
who died last year from an illness Ministry of Thdustries in Nanking. returning to Yokohama owing to
Chinese tea contracted during an air aid motor | Last year exports
engine trouble.--Reuter. with the great gold-holding coun-
amounted only to about ten thou- Journey across the Libyan Desert. tries, France and the United
sand plculs in spite of the fact States of America. It was not-British Wireless Service.
that these leaves are grown' in desirable that there should be any unduly great purchases of sier!-
Editorial and Business Office: 11ing, which would have increased
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251
Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
哼 Tel. 21511.
the value of the 'pound in terms
of foreign money, thus re-impos-
London Office: 33, Fleet Street.ing a handicap on the British
E.C.
mitediately after the meeting and The Daily
each
practices will be held on successivo Monday, up to the 20th November.
D. I. PROPHET, Actg. Hon. Secretary.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
(1777
THE
HE Three Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the University is being celebrated in Edinburgh and other places throughout the world, on Saturday, October, 28th.
Press.
HONG KONG, Septemley 17. 1933.
Motor Driver Killed
end of the race.
An. M.
G.
the
Füklen, Hüpeh, Anhwel, Klang CHICAGO'S FOOD
and Human
Declining exports of tea are due to several reasons, according to the Produc- Ministry of Industries. tion of tea in Ceylon and India
SUPPLY
"INTERFERENCE IN POLITICS"
Papal Nuncio May Be Recalled
Prague, Sept. 17.
The Cabinet has decided to re- quest the Pope to recall the Papal Nuncto, Pietro Circiaci, to Rome to enable an official explanation to be given to the letter Ciriaci wrote to the leader of the Slovak
competes with Chinese export Threatened by Gen. Poplar Party complaining he had
Strike
been insulted at Prague..
The non-Catholic press there- upon accused Circlaci of interfer- ing, with internal affairs and at- incite Slovaks to tempting to
is separate from the rest of the community. The Cabinet censur- ed the letter and decided to re- quest his recall-Reuter.
Brookland, Sept. 17. The Ave hundred miles race
while over-production of coffee in exporter: just as it had been un desirable that the value of the was marred by a tragedy at the
where an RAF bomber Brazil lowers its price and makes it more popular than tea. Japan- pound should sink too low. To close prevent violent fluctuations the crashed this morning towards the ese propaganda is also blamed for the diminishing market, as it is said
Philadelphia, Sept. 17, Exchange Equalisation Fund-
Midget turned a
that Japanese rivals circulated the
city's food supply first at £150,000,000 and later at somersault and began blazing statement that Chinese tea being The £350,000,000-was created. Thus furiously,
driver. Watson, dyed with all kinds of colour con- threatened by one of the most complete general strikes in the it was possible for the State, being thrown out and sent to hos-tains poison.
The slump is home markets is city's history. Five thousand lorry through the Bank of England, to pital where he died later. The
due to high tariff on Chinese tea drivers and carriers are on strike car was completely burnt out and buy or sell foreign money accord-
The thorities in the North-east. ing the needs of the day. Ameri. Competitors had to brake violently imposed by the Manchukuo au-holding up a hundred thousand
to avoid the blazing wreck, SOUND FINANCE
demand in Tientsin and Peiping dollars worth goods of which half can dollars were bought largely The race was won by E. R. Hall
M. G. Midget, the time has also. fallen. off. President Roosevelt is anxious when the United States banking in about the economic situation in crisis, occurred, but they were beng 4 hours 36 minutes 23 secs.; America. He wrecked the World promptly changed into gold an average speed of 100.53 m.ph Economic Conference because he and the Bank of England'a de--Reuter. feared damage to his own coun-pleted reserve restored. Another
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try: he has acted with decision valuable support for sterling was 1929, CONVENTION that has inspired confidence and the sudden sale of much of the
well
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It is proposed to have a dinner admiration, and yet recovery large stock of hoarded gold dance in Hong Kong on that date.
Members of the University of do as Edinburgh who wish to attend this celebration are invited to com- municate with the undersigned, They should state the year when they first matriculated, and their faculty
DENOUNCED
Geneva, Sept. 16.
aily denounced the 1929 Con-
Reuter.
are of a perishable nature.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Colony had a clean bill of bealth on Friday.
The M. V. "Silveryew" from New York sailed from Shanghai 16th on instant and is expected here "19th instant" at daylight.
His Excellency the Governor bas appointed Mr. Kenneth Keen to act as Assistant Head of the Sanitary his Department in addition to other duties, with effect from 13th September, 1933.
trader
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EMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA
750,000 More Obtain Work
Washington, Sept. 18. BRIGHT spots in the critical stage of America's Prosperity Drive are the August employment index, which is the highest for two years.
est since December, 1931:
These improvements are large-
limpa. He has not been able to in India. During 1932 nearly the National £100,000,000 of this gold was
A Chinese travelling Government of Great Britain and sold abroad, to the great benefit
dominant factor in the of insurance companies, shipping T Dutch government have fin-
The police launch which was sunk named Cheung Chan was arrested the
un companies, and bullion brokers. vention for the abolition of import world to-day is Britain's
suring Holland of complete con-week has now been salvaged and iso Shing Theatre, yesterday with shaken stability. People are apt Its eventual sale to the United and export mrohibitions, thus en in a collision in the harbour last song Queen's Road West, near the and the pay roll figure, the high- to take thus for granted and we States of America and European trol of her own economic policy in Kowloon Dock where repairs will having in bis possession, 360 county due to the drive for shorter
be effected. It is not yet known terleit 'Canton 20-cent pieces what is the extent of the damage. make no apology for a brief re- countries also helped to provide Wives and husbands of membela are included in this invitation...
capitulation of the stages by which Great Britain with welcome.sup- W. J. CARRIE, :
these results were achieved. As plies of foreign money. General Post Office.
far as Great Britain was concern- [1792ed, the vital hour in the financial crisis struck on the 21st Septem- ber, 1931, when she was compel- led to abandon the gold standard. This followed upon a series of post-war ups and downs in the
SHAMEEN MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. "(ERITISK, CONCESSION). MUNICIPAL NOTIFICATION No. 2/33.
VACANCY..
There were two other great enormously operations which strengthened the British position, both at home and abroad. The
U.S. COMMODITY PRICES
Washington, Sept. 17. Wholesale commodity prices were first was the quick discharge of one per ecnt; higher in August the debts due to France and the than in July, according to the United States of Americain Labour Department but the index granted credits to support sterling 100 in 1926. before the gold standard was
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was charged at Police Headquar hours." A total of 750,000 of the ters and will be brought before the unemployed were re-absorbed in
August.... A seaplane slipway, 390 feet in Magistrate this morning.
Stressing the importance of these figures, Miss Frances Perkins, Unit- length and 50 feet wide, in to be constructed at Kai Tak Anrodrome.
The Annual Camp of the Hong ed States Secretary of Labour Tenders are now invited both for the construction of the slipway and Kong Volunteer Defence Corps warns the country against com- November 17 to December 10 inclu- per cent under the normal aver- certain nilah and contingent works will be held at Fanling Camp from placency, as employment is still 28 in connection with the airport,sive, Tenders are now called for age of 1928. Pay rolls are even
Shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday, the supply and erection of mat lower.
sheds and the provision of supplies, collapsed, causing no little excite ment in the neighbourhood. As the ing the supply of dinning tables,
forms etc. house was not occupied at the time, no one was injured though the neighbours had a hit of a shock,
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financial world which threatened curred when these two countries figure is only 89.5 compared with No. 6 Observatory Villas, Kowloon stores, labour and messing, included as a result of General Hugh
The coal position has brighten- that the Coal Code will unquestionably be Johnson's declaration ready for President Roosevelt, by the economic fabric not only of Great Britain but of the whole
Mr. W. C. Smith, of the Eastern to-right.
It is stated that President Roose- world. Then came the bankers abandoned by Great Britain-of the banks because the profitable
Extension Telegraph Company,
of the Recovery Act in allowing HE post of Superintendent of warning that a considerable part a total of about £130,000,000. outlet was not wide enough
The many friends of Mrs R, H. Penang, who has retired from the velt is adhering to the language Total lof of the British gold reserves had This had an enormously steady- Both deposits and cash increased
mitting no advance interpretations conversion of the cheapness of money, advances to Kotewall will be glad to learn that firm's service after a long, connec January, 1934, for a period of ONE been lost, national expenditure ing effect abroad. The next and for a time, in spite of the YEAE, and the Council is prepared had exceeded safe limits, and was the
recovery, "Her medical adviser, pore, and Penang, has come to
He regards the Act as specify- to receive application from a bankruptcy was threatened. Un- £2,000,000 five per cent. War industry of necessity declined. after five months serious illness, tion; in the course of which he has collective bargaining, and is per petent British Subiect who is required to state bis age, qualifications and der the National Government Loan to a 3 per cent. basis. Yet bank profits have declined she is now taking a turn towards served in India, Colombo, Sing of the Labour clause, until and
economy became the order of the This colossal undertaking was very slightly; British finance and however, states that will be an Singapore on a brief holiday priormless specific cases arise.
shop," but as permitting Labour experience.
to bargain with employers collec Salary for this fall-time post is up day, the Budget was balanced, successfully carried out without banking have weathered the re- other three months before Mra. to leaving for England to settle to HK$850.00 per mansen and free and sound finance was re-intro-hitch, again demonstrating the cent storms in a wonderful man- Kotewall can resume her social acti. down with his family who are aliing #neither an open nor a closed
The otheers of the Supreme Court, tively-Reuter. quarters...
duced. The 1932. Budget was public's patriotic determination to her. The position of all the banks vities. We take this opportunity of ready in residence there
good health,
will be open daily from 10 am, to Applications shou'd be addressed to
The "Gazette" contains an Ordin-1 pm. during the Long Vacation, the Fecretary, and applicants must be based on equally sound-if, from establish secure basis for the is as sound as ever; and with the wishing her a speedy restoration to prepared to rome to Canton for a the point of view of the tax-payer, country's finances, and saving the present revival in trade we may
ing activity, with a wider distriance to amend the Juvenile Offen- except on Public and General Holi
ders Ordinance, 1032, to ensure that days, when the offices will be en- ! personal interview with the Council on drastic-principles; tariffs were Exchequer an annual outlay of soon expect an expansion of bank- requrat, travelling expenses being de introduced and, through the de- about 180,000,000,
Meanwhile the bankers have bution of funds and a gradual persons dealt with under section 17 tirely closed, and on Saturdays, day by the operators. Gen. Johnson, frayed by the Council.
preciation of the pound, lost By Order of the Council, markets were recaptured. Im not escape periods of anxiety. increase in the purchasing power (1) of Ordinance No. 1 of 1922 are when they will be open from 10 head of the NIRA has been Sessions busince. The blem of the bituminious Coal Code but, where necessary, to Certified Criminal CHAS. E. WATSON, mediately it became obvious that With a state of depression in of the people. This in its turn not sent to Reformatory Schools am to noon, subject, however, to wrestling for weeks with the pro- the pessimistic views held in industry there were considerably will lead to more orders being natris Schools, I order to pre Long Vacation commences on the and threatened to recommend 20th Instant, and terminates on the Mr. Roosevelt to take action Director of Public Works and Becretary,
Heuter. 4 many foreign countries as to fewer demands for money,ad placed and the prosperous side of vent the attachment of any none. Great Britain's economic future vances from manufacturers and the trade cycle should soon again cessary etigma to children or young 17th October, 1933, (both days in against the recalcetrant group.
trade. Money accumulated in be in evidence. [1768 were unjustified.
COUNCIL Room, SHAMIEN, 14th September, 1883.
persona.
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clave).
COAL CODE SIGNED
Washington, Bept. 17.
The Coal Code was signed to-
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