NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE
NOTICE.
KE next General Meeting of the Society will ba bold "on
Wednesday, 31st Jauhary, 1934, at 3.80 p.m. in the Union Assembly Room when
DR. LI SHU PUL, M.B., F.R.C.S.
will take as his subject· "THE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF
OTORRHOEA.”
Tea will be served at 5.15 p.m.
k. H. ÔNG,
Hon. Secretary.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS WALTER HENRY GRACE, LATE OF THE JUNIOR CARLTON CLUB PALL MALL CITY OF WESTMINSTER AND or VILLA LA CATA CANNES
MARITIMES ALTES
FRANCE, GENTLEMAN (RETIRED Dronasto.
W
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of Section 38 of Probate Ordinance 1897. made an Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others.to send in their Claims against the above Katate to the 20TH DAY of FEBRUARY, 1934.
All Creditors and Others are accord- ingly hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned on or before thai date.
Dated the 29th day of January, 1934,
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executrix,
Prince's Building,
Tce House Street,
Hong Kong.
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THE BANK OF EAST
ASIA, LTD.
TOTICE is hereby gives that the
FIFTEENTH
ORDINARY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDE 8 will be eld at the Registered Office of the Company No. 13, Des Voeux Road "Central, at 2.30 p.m. Saturday, the 10th February, 1834, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounta for the year ending 31st December, 1933.
The Transfer Books of the Company "will be closed from Saturday 3rd February to Saturday 10th February, 1934 (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares ond bé registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,'
-KAN TONG PO, ·
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 24th January, 1934.
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HONG KONG, JANUARY 20, 1934.
BEHIND THE VEIL
There is an Indian saying that It is dangerous to lift the vell because a man can never know where it will lead him. Like most Indian sayings there s an Innuendo in the words and a tang of humour, but taking them at their more. serious, value we are forced to admit their Import, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the FORTY-SIXTH More is hidden in Nature than has ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING yet been revealed by philosophers of SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Offices of Messrs and selentists, and those who close Jardine. Matheson & Co., Ltd. on their minds against the mysteries WEDNESDAY, 21st February, 1934 latent around us show neither
Division of the Pak Sük District of Kiangsi Province, died suddenly and was buried outside the garden of his field.
"In the middle of a certain night, the dead man suddenly arose from his coin (which was buried in the earth at a depth and walked of about a foot) straightly to his home.
When he reached the door of its house, he cried out at
BIRTHS
NEWBIGGING-On January 19. 1934. at the Wellington Nurs- ing Home. Tientsin, to Peggie, wife of D. L. Newbigging, a
son.
CONTINENTAL CABLE NEWS
FAYERS--On January 22, 1934, at Gordon Highlanders'
the Country Hospital, Shang- hal to Mr. and Mrs. J. H
Fayers, a son.
ELIAS.-On January 23, 1934, at
Bury St. Edmunds, to Hazel.
Drum
(nee Crawford), wife of Cap-ISpecial to the "Hong Kong Dally tain ER. B. Elias: The Suffolk
Press Copyright.)I Regiment, a son..
DEATHS
MCKAY-On Sunday, January 21, 1934, at Shanghai Harry Philip McKay, aged 35 years. LYLE On Tuesday, January 23, 1934, at the Sino Foreign, Clinic, Kira Gavrilovna Lyle, aged 19 years. HAEUSSER-At the Paulun Hos- pital Shanghai, on January 23, » 1934, Captain Ernst Haeusser, aged 50 years.
announced
of
ENGAGEMENT THOYTS - HORNELL The en-
gagement is Peggy, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. C. Hornell, and Major H St. G... Thoyts, the Lincolnshire Regiment.
GERMAN POLISH
TREATY
A Signal Service To Cause Of Peace
[Special to the Hong Kong Daily "Press" (Copyright.)]
London, January 28.
#
WHAT KIND OF NEWS SUMMARY
NOISE ANNOYS?
Sudden Sounds Irritate the Nervous
Can you hear the noise going on round you all day?
¿The answer is Probably you cannot.. London, Jan. 28.
For in the world which is getting President Von Hindenburg's chi-|
noisier human beings are learning valrous gesture at, offering to re-
themselves to nose tüm to the Gordon Highlanders to adjust the drum captured from them by They are acquiring a faculty of LO the noise about German troops near Ostend at the "tuning in!! beginning of the War, is greatly them. Sometimes they seem able to appreciated here. General Sirian shat their ears to noise in much ti Hamilton-famous commander of same way as they can shat their the British expeditionary force at eyes. In short, we are becoming
Dardanelles-recently noise-proof, Gallipoli,
This was discovered by a 'repor- wrote to Hindenburg requesting that the drum, which ever since ter who was investigating the con- has been exhibited as a war tro-clusion of a British Association phy in the Berlin Arsenal Museum, committee that the noises which might be given back to the Gor-cause the most discomfort are--in don Highlanders, whereupon the order of demerit-motor President immediately replied cor- motor horns, aircraft, car exhausts, dially inviting General Hamilton lorries, strect music, wireless and car gears, buses, to come personally to the German gramophones. Capital in order to fetch the Drumroad drills, dogs; and milkvarts. General Hamilton who left for
Noiseless Offices Berlin on Sunday said before start
To find out the mysteries of noise ing that Hindenburg's invitation
up eight was an act of chivalry worthy of it is necessary to go the World-famed veteran of the storeys to the most noiseless offices Great War-Transocean Kuo Min. in London-those of the National lustitute of Industrial Psychology there you walk along noiseless corridors past girls who tap, noise" less typewriters, and into rooms a silent that you can almost hear your heart beat.
+
SUVICH TO VISIT BUDAPEST
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Bress" (Copyright)]. ↑
Romes January 28,
cycles.
Sir Milea Lampson has been off- cially welcomed in Egypt, news of which has been received by special Air Mail.
Page 7.
News of Golf in the U.S.A. and Great Britain in regard to the Walker Cup has been received by air mail.
Page 10. "Who's Who", in the forthcoming production of Pirates of Panzance is given on Page 7."
1'
The report that Lord Allenby's visit to the Far East is connected with the Singapore Conference is Page 11. very much exaggerated.
Naval Appointments by Air Mail Page 1. London Air Mail Letter Page. 1. Broadcasting Programme "Page 4. Cinema Diary Diary of Local Events
Echoes of 1580
Around the Courty Home Football News. Special Motor Supplement
Page 5.
Page 5.
Page 6.
Page 8."
Page 10,
Page 2 The Staff of the C.P.R. entertain- ed Mr. and Mrs Cameron last right at the Kam Ling Restaurant. A large number of guests were in- vited to wish them farewell Page 7.
Police Orders for the week.
Page 7. Accidents during the week-end have been reported on Page 7
It has been a busy year for the Royal Family. Prince George rivals the Queen
Pago 4. News about the huge Cunarder
given on Fage 3 An article on the naming of
Page 9 H.M. Ships
Two Bandit raids took place in
Mr. C. Scarborough, a member of the Institute, said "In factories we have found that provided the The Under-Secretary for Foreign noise is not too intens the workers affairs Suvich will go to Budapest get used to it very speedily. during the second-half of FebruaryBut what is far worse is the the New Territories over the week- in order to return the calls made intermitent, irregular, unexpected end. by the Hungarian Prime Minister uoise such as the thud-thud of a and Foreign Minister, on, Musso-stamping machine that works irres Wat's behalf. Transocean Kuo gularly and suddenly turns away your attention when you are not expecting it.
Min.
GERMANY INTERESTED
The eulogy of the German Chan- cellor published in the "Observer" in connection with the German- Polish Treaty is all the more re- markable since the "Observer" is | [Special to the Hong Kong Dally known for its critical attitude to- wards the National-Socialist Gov- ernment.
The paper states, that the Pact is peculiarly significant as involv-
ing a radical transformation in European diplomatic relations, On the whole the Pact renders a sign-
al service to the cause of peace, and Both Hitler and Marshal Pilsudski
are
congratulated
for
to be their statesmen-Hike qualities and prudence.
Europe has this been happily the top of his voice, complain-relieved of the possibility of in- ing to his wife for being so cruel
new entanglements, the direct burying him alive in the
Treaty which considerably streng- ground,
thers peace in connection with the "On hearing the noise his wife Polish issue will surely have far- opened the door and was amaz-reaching consequences in other ed to see her husband,. whom spheres. also. she knew had died, standing The diplomatic correspondent of before her and scolding her. the Sunday Times" terms the German-Polish Pact as a ray of hope amidst the tangled European situation.
"She was very frightened and nearly fainted, for she thought he was a devil, or his soul ap- peared to threaten her.
Fears entertained in France that warlike developments "But the man sternly advised may break out in Eastern Europe his wife that he was not a devil have now been removed and hope and told her not to be afraid is warranted that "before the ex- Then his wife calmly walked up priation of the ten-year treaty, a and touched his body, and final-lasting, conciliation will have been ly saw that he was really effected. Transocean Kuo Min. human being and no ghost!
There was afterwards. great rejoicing in the family and all the villagers, after hearing the strange story, gathered together. at his house to see him. They all wondered at his revival, de- claring that they had never
such seen before."
2 strange thing
NEW COLONIES OF BRITAIN
A paint worthy of consideration Plan to Settle 150,000
Men Overseas
at NOON for the purpoes of receiving imagination nor courage. It is in the foregoing account is that the Report of the Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the dangerous to lift the vell, but that both the name of the man your ended 31st December, 1933,
and is no reason why minds should district where the incident occur- The REGISTER of SHARES of the not remain open to the probings red are given without hesitation, Company will be CLOSED from MONDAY, 8th February, to and exploration by other more thus making it difficult to dismiss WEDNESDAY, 21st February, both curious folk.
the account as mere hearsay. days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
L. 8. GREENHILL,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, 27th January, 1934.
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Can
EMPIRE MIGRATION TO 'BE RESUMED
Press" (Copyright.)]
Berlin, January 28. German Aeronautical are circles interested in the are keenly
"Missed the Machine
"The psychological effect of sud- den Hoises is that of distraction irritation, and annoyance.
·Page 7.
U. S. MONETARY
PROBLEM
Some people quite definitely Support For Wheeler's
prefer to work in a noisy atmos phere but it may be that they have become adapted to it. I heard of a journalist who retired into the country--and found that report published in the "Times he did not work pearly 50, well. aying He said that if he had the money
of а boat
of
The
Proposal
New York, January 29. British new
Special despatches from Wash- unusual design. boat is a twin-engined Monoplane he would arrange that his whole ington agree on the significance with a wing span of sixty feet. The house should be kept vibrating, of the Senate voting on the wing is considered the most re- machinery would thro, bells would Wheeler and Pittman amend ring outside his door, and every menta, opining that Mr. Roosevelt markable feature, in the design. Few minutes a boy would pop his is unable to ignore the sentiment It is swept upwards from the hull for nearly one third of the span head in to know if the proofs were
ready." and then is carried on to the tips at a much more gentle angle Transocean Kuo Min.
CHURCH CONFLICT DE GERMANY
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily "Press" (Copyright.)]
PRINCESS ELIZABETH SEES FIRST CIRCUS "
silver a more important place in in Congress in favour of giving
the monetary machinery.
Senator Pittman declares that an amendment is necessary and states tha unless President
· Roosevelt is empowered to have the United States market price America "may lose Aimertean -silver London, January 23.
and the United States be prevent- Little Princess Elizabeth, grand- | ed from carrying out" the London. daughter of the King and Queen Silver Pact. saw her first circus to-day. She was accompanied to Olympia by Berlin, Jan. 28. ber parents, the Duke and Duchess In connection with the develop of York. The Royal visit was ment of the church conflict. re-secret but the little Princess was ported yesterday, which brought instantly recognised, and cheered about a vote of confidence of the by the audience.---Reuter. bishops in favour of Reichsbishop Mueller, it is now reported that Pastor Nlemoeller the leader of the opposition has been granted tem- porary leave, Transocean Kuo Min.
"
UNREST IN SPAIN
[Special to the “Hong Kong Daliy Fress" (Copyright.)ī ..
Madrid, Jan. 28,"
HUGE COATS FAMILY
ESTATE
£16,000,000 Left During Past Sixteen Years
London, January 23. The estate of Mr. Harold Glen Costs of Faisley, who died recent
The free coinage advocates re- gard the amendment as & resture-Reuter..
LOCAL AND GENERAL
mere
One case of typhold has been reported in the Colony for the 48 hours ended January 28.
The Hong Kong Horticultural Bociety has published their sche- dule for 1034 "Flower and Vegetable Show an exceedingly well arranged and printed book.. A General strike has been de-y, was proved to-day at £600,000. The Hon. Secretary of the Society J T Bagram 11, clared at Toledo by the combined Mr. Glen-Coats was a member of 1 MP.
one may apply in "case he wishes Marxists. In Madrid the Fascist the great sewing-cotton family student who supervised the sale of and, since 1918, six other members for a copy Fascist newspapers in the street of the family have died, leaving was ambushed and shot dead by estates valued at £16,000,000.
They were Lord Glentaner who A verdict of death from natural the Marxista. There were some
left д fortune estimated at causes" was returned by the jury hostile demonstrations at a Mad- Empire emigration may be re- rid cinema when a news reel fea- £4,600,000; W. A Coats, £4,000,- at an inquest conducted by Mr. 000; Peter Coats, £2,500,000; Balfour yesterday following the business organisation, such as a Spectators hurled ink bottles at sumed at an early date under aturing Soviet athletics was shown.
James Coats, £2,000,000; Bir death of a prisoner. It was stated James Coats, £1,700,000; T. Glen- that the man had been suffering large corporation or chartered the screen-Transocean Kuo Min..
from dysantery. He was serving Coats, £1,600,000," company. It is reliably learned
one month's hard labour for un- A WARM WELCOME
lawful possessión."
to-day.
London," January 23.
|
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Frem" {Copyright.)]
Berlin, Jan. 28. News of a warm welcome ac- corded everywhere in Great Bri-
In each case, more than half the estate was paid to the State in death dutlės.--Reuter.
PROBLEM OF FIRES ON SHIPS
Insurance
"Some Fundamental Religious Ideas from -the “Buddhist⠀⠀ and Christian Stanpoint" was the sub- Ject of the third series of lectures on Buddhism in Chind delivered by Dr. Richelt at the Cathedral Hall last night. Mr. Justice J. R. Wood presided over a large gather- ing, and a full report of the lec- ture will appear in to-morrow's Issue of the Daily Presa."
Some weeks ago we published
Travellers in South China near an article on Dr. Alexander Can-
the borders of Hunan and Kwel non's book "Black Magic," which show have often been invited to created such a storm on its ap-witness the pseudo-science. of pearance, losing for Dr. Cannon bringing the dead home." From his appointment. How much of time to time accounts of this have It is hoped to go straight ahead the book is truth and how much been related by witnesses: with a scheme settling 150,000 men credulous fantasy remains
tonese merchants who trade in overseas, and a resolution to this question entirely for the judgment those parts and go in dread of a Parliamentary session.
effect will be considered at the next THE "STAR" FERRY
of individual readers, but certain-
cult" which dabbles in such As the result of two years' in- COMPANY, LIMITED. ly the well-known psychiatrist
mysteries, also missionaries, buste vestigations, the Committee of E- pire Interests 1j convinced that this -NOTICE-TO-SHAREHOLDERS. appears to be sincere in his as-
ness men and engineers. Accord-migration win partially solve the tonishing revelations.
ing to these accounts the Priest unemployment problem in Britain.
tain to the Berlin Philharmonic London Bear L'Atlantique TQTICE :18 HEREBY GIVEN
Fully aware that the Government Orchestra which is touring there THAT THE THIETY-SIXTH We have been put in, mind of of the Cult (known in Cantonese
stimulation of emigration to the under Furtwaengler is all the more ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING this book by Dr. Cannon because as Nam Woh) holds a rod in his Dominion is unworkable, it is welcome here as various warnings OF THIS COMPANY, will be held of an article which appeared a hand and commands the dead intended to start entirely new colo had been received that protests
London, January 23. at the Office of Mesara, Jardine, few days ago In the She Man Tut body to rise and follow, whereupon nies of Britons in undeveloped ter- and Interruptions were expected Considerably over half of the
Mr. Arthur R. Ross, who has by the German emigrants Not Fr.170,000,000 plus interest and ex- i been associated with the Tientsin, DAY, the 8th February, 1984, at
villages. Emigrants from the same. only did nothing of the kind take penses since March, of which the office of Jardine, Matheson & Co., NOON, for the purpose of receiving Canton Government," «relating to back to village where the burial districts in Britain will be housed place. but the applause which in insurers of the ill-fated French Ltd, for the past ten years, has the Report of the Directors together an incident in which
man had taken place....a
together."
Have L'Atlantique" variably greeted the orchestra in ss.
been been transferred to the Hong with a Statement of Accounts for crawled from his grave after being
the A corporation will be responsible London, Newcastle, Glasgow, Man-mulcted, falls On We have mentioned this "cult for transporting
London Kong branch and was to have left the year ended 31st December, 1988. dead and burled for over a month.
the migrants, chester and Bristol was demons market.
yesterday in the ss. Tingnang for for "bringing the dead home" as clearing the land and marketilstratively, cordial.
Commenting on ship: fires, the his new post. He will leave here The Register of Shares of the we have made a translation and there would seem to be some the produce, w
report of the Liverpool Under-in the ss. Glenapp which will Company will be CLOSED From
The British Government is being Wednesday, the 81st January, 1984 quote it for what it is worth analogy between it and the in-urged to support the scheme with ceived more than twenty invita-writers Association, published to reach Hong Kong about January
"The anging "Strange as itcident reported in the Sie Man credit up to the amount which tions to different British cities for 'seems' can well be applied, to the story about a Chinese vil-Fat Po on which it might throw would be saved from memploy-next year. Transocean Kuo Min. lager in Klangat. Province, who some light. Certainly there are ment benefit
It is estimated that the settling. after having been burled under strange happenings almost at our of a family in Canada will cost turns to life: ground for nearly a month doors and in pointing out the £1,000 and for a family in Aus The story tells that Cheung foregoing we take refuge in the tall 1.200 Half a million migran may be settled in the Fung Ting, a villager of the 7th, motto "Sequitando si glinge.
ten years-Reuter
Matheson & Co., Ltd, en. THURS F, & semi-oficial, organ, of, the the dead person follows the Priest ritories and to build new towns and
to Thursday, the 8th February, 1934, both days inclusive, d
By order of the Board of Directors,
F. IL. CRAPNELL,
Secretary
Hong Kong, 24th January, 1984...
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&
course
The orchestra has already re
day deprecates the exaggerated 31. Mr. B. L. W. Dunnett, who view of the intricate problem of was transferred from Hong Kong fires on passenger ships as leap to Tientain by Messrs Jardine, plies to British ships, as there Matheson & Co., during home. for many years have been tee leave in England, arrived there on Mr. George H. Percy of Jardine from serious ares at sea and Christmas Day and will assume Matheon & Co. Ltd., arrived in rightly enjoy the benefit of a long Mr. Ross duties. In Hong Kong, Shanghai yesterday in the Ameritradition of efficient disipline Mr. Ross will replace Mr. L. G. can-Mall ́as. President Jackson:
Frost who is leaving on furlough.
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