NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
E entries for the Annual Race
T Meeting. 1934, will close at
3.00 pm. on Saturday, 20th January 1934.
Members are rominded that no horse is eligible to enter, for any race meeting of this Club until an Official Racing Certificate shall have been obtained in respect of the borse.
All Membera intending to enter Griffis at the Annual Meeting are requested to apply for Official Rac ing Certificates in respect of such Griffins without delay. Also, Mem- bers who have not yet registered racing names or colours will oblige by doing so at their earliest con- venience.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,-
Secretary-
Hong Kong, leth December, 1988.
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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918) LTD.,
NOTICE.
TEARLY
HE FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Board Room of Messra. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile Building, Victoria, Hong Kong. on Saturday, the 8 th day of D comber, 1933, at 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of receiving a State- ment of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the financial year ended 30th September, 1933, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Rooks of the Com- pany will be closed from Saturday, 23rd December, 1933, until Saturday, 18th January, 1984, both days in clusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
NOEL BRAGA,
"Secretary. Hong Kong, 16th December, 1988.
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UNDER THI À USPICKS or THE ARTS ABSOCIATION
of
THE UNIVERSITY of
HONG KONG A LECTURE will be given by Miss S. MARGERY FRY,
JP., MA, LL.D.".
on
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
сп
Thursday, the 21st December, 1933, at 5.3 p.m. in the Union Assembly Boom, at the University. The lecture is o; on to the public.
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TO SPEAK OR NOT
TO SPEAK
Conversation is generally con- sided to be a lost art. The radio blaring forth at meal-time has
such a wonderful smoke screen for a lack of ideas and ability to shape them into pleasant SERVICE TO READERS expression that even those with
tion the guest was reduced to musing on the probable outcome of the Fukien situation, or the economic status of the Saxophore Soloist who was being broadcast at the moment." Across the table another diner ran on incessantly. His concept of talk made it a solo performance rather than a duet. His, neighbour listened patiently but was, generally smothered in her attempts at a reply. Which, we wonder, is the harder experience or a festive occasion, a companion who will not talk at all, or one who talks all the time? How many interesting talkers are poor conversationalists because they lack either desire or ability elicit a response!
to
Conversation is neither mono- logue, nor argument, nor disputa- tion, but rather the friendly give.
OBITUARY
Mr. Robert Chambers
New York, December The death occurred to-day of the American novelist and play- Wright Mr. Robert Chambers.
MR. LOUIS JOSEPH VANE
The death of Mr. Louis Váne
creator the novellat and
of the s Character. "Lone Wolf"
alsc reported. Mr. Vane who fell as leep with a lighted cigarette in his hand was burnt to death Reuter.
NEW CASE AGAINST MR. SAMUEL INSULL
INTERESTING STAGE OF NEWS SUMMARY
TEST
Two Centuries In One Day
INDIA MAKING HARD BID FOR
A WIN
Bombay, December 17. Thousands of spectators were disappointed though they were willing to pay five times as much for a seat. 50,000 witnessed the resumption of play in bright sunny weather. England had scored 300 runs in 278 minutes and Jardine, their skipper, after cor- ing 60 was bowled by Nissar, whe sent his off-stump flying (300 for 5)... Townsend after scoring 15 runs was finely caught and" bowled New York December 17. by Jamshed (362 for 6.) According to the Washington Valentine (136) was the next New York Times, the Govenment |`victim. He was caught at cover has stated a $199,000 income-tax by Merchant of Jamshedi, "his action against Samuel Insull. The stay at the wickets lasting 175 assistant Attorney. General has minutes and his score included one "Indicated "the action may streng-six, one five, and 12 fours although then the Government extradi- his knock was somewhat lucky. tion demand.-Reuter,"
(371 for 7).
GJ
PERSO-SOVIET TRADE
"Moscow, December 17. The long period of Perso-Sovie: trade difference is semi-officially announced to have terminated by an
inter agreement which, alia, clarifes the existing trade convention particularly regarding Import and export quotas-Rev-
ter.
ANCIENT RITE
RESUSCIATED
Bremerton, Washington,
December 17,
The andent rite of champagne christening was resusciated to-day by the launching of the "Astoria," the fastest and most powerful of ten-thousand ton cruisers Reuter.
NEW POLICE COMMIS. SIONER
Nichola was run out on aallly call by Verity (373 for 8.) Eliott joined Verity and these two play- ers defied all changes of bowling and played masterly cricket. At lunch they had scored 91 and 23, respectively, and the total was 630 for 8.
On resuming after lunch Verity was out to Nissar's first ball in trying to hit one to the leg. he mistimed and was caught by Ramji at alfps His score was 24 (43) for 9.)
Clark after scoring one fell vic- tim. to Nissar who bowled him and sent one of the bails Afty yards away. (438 for 10.) Elliott's in- nings of 37 was the result of good and steady cricket. It included 4 fours.
Indian's Second Innlags, " Wazir All and Navlé opened the second innings for India who soon. met with disaster, for Wazly All was caught by Nichols at first slip off Clark after scoring „Ave. ̈(9 for 1), Navle followed shortly after with 4 to his credit (21 for 2).
A brilliant third wisket partner- ship by Amarnath (102 not out) and Naldu (44 not out) brought. the score to 159 for 2 at the close of play.
India-1st Innings.
C. K. Naidu, 1.b.w.. b Clark 28 L. P. Jal. e Mitchell," d
Landridge
V. M. Merchant, Lbw, d
Nichols
S. H. M. Colah, c Elli
Nichols
Amar Singh, st. „Elliott, b
Langridge
··19
23
31
Mohamed Nissar, e Mitchell,"
b Verity
L. Ramli, B Verity
Jamshed, not out
- Extras
Total
13
Saturday's Racing has been "rà-- viewed by "Morning Dow on page
Saturday's Training Gallops of the new ponies appears on page 11.
The annual meeting of the anti-" Mui Thai Sariety was presided over by Mr. Wong Sam Kam. Mr. Bush reviewed the past year work most thoroughly.
Page 7 Accounts of the Saturday's Hoe- key, especially results of the Caer Clark Cup matches appear Page 11.
OA
Home Football Results appear 'on Page 11.
12
Cricket Results of Saturday's League and Friendly matches appear on Page 12,
Complete review of all Local Football Matches appears on Page 10.
If Gossip We Must appears 'ou page 1, 4
13
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Fall of Wickets:-1 for 44, 2 for 71, 3 for. 117, 4 for 135, 5 for 148, 6 for 175, T for 186, 8 for 212, 9 for 212.
Nichols Clark
Bowling Analysis.
Barnett Verity Langridge
Townsend
wwwwww
O, M. R. W.
.38 53 3
13 2 41
2 1 1
27 11
44
1
17 4 42 3
9 2 25
England-1st Innings. Walters, c Merchant, b Amar
Bingh
Q
Mitchell, b Nissar. Barnett, c and b Jamshed) 33 Langridge; l.b.wb Nissar... 31 Jardine, b Nissar
60
Valentine, Merchant, b .. Jamshedi,.....
"
.136
Townsend, c and b Jamshed! 15 Nichols, ran out
2
Verity, c Ranji, b Nissar Clark, b Nissar
24
1
37
16
438
Elliott, not out
Extras
Total
Bowling Analysis.
O MR W. Nissar
33:5 3 90 5 Ramji
23 5 64 · Amar Singh... 36 5 119 1. Jamshedi
...... 35 4 137 Naldu
7 2 10 Amarnath
2
India-2nd Innings.
3
0
1 20
Wazir All, e Nichols, b Clark 5 Nävle, e Elliott, b Clark ... Amarnath, not out
4
.102
Naidu, not out
44.
•Extras
Total (for 2 wkts.)..
.159
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Amarnath was batting brilliant- ly and his innings of 102 was New York, December 17.
faultless. Major-General, John “F.
The English bowling Огуад will take over the police commis-was completely collared. sionership in New York on Jan-
J. G. Navle, c Nichols, b uary 1st. Reuter."
Verity
...... 13 Wazir All, 1.b.w., b Nichols... 36 Amar Nath, Lb.w.,. b Lang-
ridge
ATTEMPT TO KILL MAX BRAUN
Nazi Trouble In Saar Region
Paris, December. 16.
Around the Courts
LIFE BANISHEE RETURNS
Mok Chung Wa, a life-banishee, pleaded guilty before Mr. Wynne- Jones at Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday morning to a breach of
An unsuccessful attempt to kill and take of talk. It is thus pre-Max Braun, the Social Democra- his Deportation Order. eminently a social practice, a mental partnership in which there are no "silent" partners.
A good definition was given by Sif John Mahaffy: to take up
tic leader of the Saar, is reported from Saarbrucken.
A parcel posted to Herr. Braun's
house was found to contain a bot- the filled with gunpowder and nalls and atted with an impro-
vised detonator...
The contrivance falled to ex- plore as the bottle was broken in transit.
a normal talent in this direction find any proclivities towards good conversation completely subdued.
what others say in easy comment, HE HONG KONG, TH
In the East. It is almost worse. to give in return something which DAILY PRESS, LTD.
Persons learn the wisdom, after a
will please, to stimulate the silent and the HONG KONG few months sojourn in any of the
It is alleged that a price of and morose out of their vapours 3,000 francs has been placed on WEEKLY PRESS, through Coast Ports or Hong Kong, that it and Surprise. them into good Herr Braun's head by the Nazis is unprofitable to introduce any humour, to lead while one-seems their London Office, at 53 discussable ideas into the babble to follow-this is the real aim of
of the Saar region.-Reuter. FLEET STREET, E.C. 4. Tel. of conversation that boils around good conversation." 3137, are prepared to give more, they soon grow to fear the season which commenced in earn- FAR EAST NAVAL Subscribers and Visitors astounded hush that immediately est with the St. Andrew's Ball is falls on the party, embarrassing in about to enter into the full swing advice regarding accommoda-
Its amazement at the conceit of the of Christmas dinners, dances, re- tion available, motoring faci-would-be .conversationalist," who "ceptions, parties. Here, then, is a cities, suitable shopping, has not learnt discretion in this suggested grace to be cultivated entres, etc.
If, when at home, they will call or telephone to the above
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LOCAL MAPS
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria, New Territories.
HONGKONG" DAILY PRESS.
magnificently free Orient, "East of Suez, where a man can raise a thirst." (By "a man" Kipling very probably meant "Man.")
The winter
in order to add to the genuine pleasure of life in general,
The good conversationalist will neither monopolize nor dispute Look round the lounges of any nor interrupt-we do not know of our leading hotels during the whether the great sage of Lich- busy hours of clinking glasses and deld Dr. Johnson, was quite so tinkling teaspons and note how domineering as Boswell made out, some monopolize the conversation he may have been secretly pulling to the almost serious straining of Boswell's les: In any case, when the nerves of a polite via-a-vis. most over ice to these thres
and others sit in a masterful able. silence.
he is least like
·CONFERENCE
To Be Held At Singapore
London, Dec. 16.
It was slated by the Police that defendant was a life-banishee, and was banished from the Colony in 1927, but was seen and arrested by
Chinese detective in Nathan
Road, Kowloon, Inst Friday after-
noon.
Defendant told His Worship that he only returned to ask his friend
for some money.
A sentence of one year's hard. la- bour was passed.
SLY BROTHELS
Mr. Wynne-Janes imposed & fine of 873 or six weeks hard labour on the first defendant, and another two fines of $250 or three months two months on the and $100 or second and third.
In addition to the fines, order for the clearing of the prostitutes were also made.
•
OPIUM DIVAN RAIDED
A Chinese named 'Chaing Shu Leung, appeared before Mr. Hamil ton at the Central Magistracy on Saturday morning, charged with
Bishop Hall preached the fifth of his aries of sermons at St. John's Page 2 Cathedral on Bunday.......
A report of yesterday yachting appears on page 19
VALIDITY OF GOLD CLAUSE
Upheld by House of 'Lords
London. December 16.
The House of Lords has unant. mously upheld the validity of the gold clause by reversing the Court of Appeal's judgment against a Brush holder of a bearer. bond of the Societe Intercommunale Belge Delectricite of Brussels, who sought the court's declara- tion that he was entitled to be paid in gold coin equivalent to the value rulingke that. United" Kingdom in September, 1928.
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decided The House of Lords that the bond clause entitled the holder to be paid, both principal and interest, in gold coin, claired, which means that in- stead of 25. 10s. in paper pounds. the holder receives the equivalent of about £8 per cent. in paper pounds-Reuter.
ALLEGED RUM-
RUNNING
Liquor Law Challenged?
Washington, December. 16. A British freighter, lying off the California coast, suspected of be- inga rum-runner, is regarded as of a challenge to the ability America to enforce the liquor law,
Consequently, President Roose- velt has ordered the Navy to co- operate with the Coast Guards in preventing, rum-running,
Representatives of the owners of the vessel, which is carrying a cargo of 40,000 cases of liquor, are reported to have telegraphically requested permission to enter the
harbour of Los Angeles and place
the liquor in a bonded warehouse keeping an opium divan and un-pending sale in accordance with lawful possession of some quantity the quotas. of prepared opium.
Lo Woon. a Chinese detective, stated that the defendant wae the principal tenant of No. 16. Aber- Weng Lam, a Chinese woman, deen Street, Ist. floor, and during and two men, Lo Ki and Leùng Tai, { the raide, quantity of prepared
appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones
at the Kowloon Police Court on
Saturday morning on charges of
keeping sly brothels in Peatland Temple and Reclamation Streets, Yaumati.
All defendants pleaded guilty.
opium was found in the premises.
Defendant pleaded guilty and
They undertake if permission is granted, that smuggling on the Pacific coast will cease in at least six months-Reuter.
was fined $30, or five months im- UNEMPLOYED
prisonment.
All the smoking implements and opium were ordered to be confis- cated.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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Mr. Benjamin Davies Evans 're- sumed duty as Assistant Director, Royal Observatory, on November. 30, 1033
One case each of diphtheria and meningitis were reported in the Colony for the 24 hours ended December 15.
Honourable Commander, George Francis Hole, RN, (Retired), re- sumed duty as Harbour Master and Director of Air Services on Decem- ber 14, 1933.
BRITAIN
IN
Great Interest Shown By Prince of Wales
London, December 18, The Prince of Wales concluded his three days tour of Yorkshire last evening.
As in earlier tours of the tridużə rial areas, the Prince displayed
An enjoyable time was hed by his chief interest in the work 01
members and friends of the Indian Recreation Club, yesterday ́ when a" social afternoon" - was held,
Various games including mah- jongg and bridge were arranged, but the most popular item was the ancient game of tea and refresh ments.
the clubs and occupational and training centres established for the unemployed.
The British Admiralty announce that the next periodical confèr- Mr. Geoffrey Robley Bayer re- ence of Far Eastern Naval Com-sumed duty as Head of Sanitary manders has been arranged to Department on December 14, 1933. take place in Singapore, in January. Reuter
INADEQUACY OF DEFENCES London, Later. The London "Morning Post” in a leading article, to-day emphast- anxioms will do something to keep ses the importance of the Far A casual guest at a dinner the a fine art from dying out.
Eastern Naval Conference in view other evening found the hour
of the growing réalisation of the mildly boring. He threw out the
Inadequacy of the defences of Australia and New Zealand, and At the meeting of the Rotary conversational ball a number of
also the incomplète state of the Club on Tuesday, December 19, times but it always failed to re-
Singapore base, which is not ex- | Dr. LG. Saunders will give the pected to be finished before 1939 - address on "Strange Lives” dó- bound. His neighbours smiled
A Chinese woman, Tsang Kwai At the occupational centre In at the present rate of construc- livery of which was postponed Yin, attempted to commit sudelde Morley the Prince worked a hand genially, gazed about, with a far-
tion
Inst week.
at 9.45 p.m. on Friday by jumping loom on which members are mak- away look and replied to each
New York, December.: 16. The remaining expenditure is fastlane
overboard from the Star ferry boating scarves, one of which was. Nine convicts are reported to £2,750,000, of the estimated Flix: Majesty the Xing has not Golden Star while crossing the presented to the Prince, Negr provocative Interrogation in the have been killed when a number £7,000,000 the Federated Malay been advised to exercise his power harbour from Hong Kong to Kow Similar centres in Huddersneld affirmative or the negative, as the of convicts and escaped prisoners States, New Zealand and Hong of disallowance with respect to Or- loon. She was rescued by a fire- and Pensiono were visited. case seemed to require, After each escaped from Trujillo penitentiary, Kong.-together contributed dinance No. 10 of 1939, an Ordin-1 man named Cheung, Hung, who Although, the Prince's the Bultan of ance to amend and consolidate the dived into the water and support- Informal, great crowds fallure a fresh start was necessary, Honduras
£3,250,000, 2 Four soldiers were wounded in Johore presented the base law relating to the Hong Konged her until the ferry-boat stopped to welcome him. British or silence. Run out of ammunf-the affray Reuter.
Volunteer Defence Corps.
and returned to pick them up. Bervice.
CONVICTS ESCAPE IN HONDURAS
Reuter
In Bradford, which suffered of the depression, he learned with heavily during the severest phase keen satisfaction that the number of local unemployed had fallen from 38,000 in 1931 to fewer than 14,000.
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