NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS
LIMITED.
of
COTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN No the ORDINARY YEAR LY GENERAL MEETING HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMIT- BD will be held at the offices of Masers Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., Hongkong on FRIDAY, the 18th day of February, 1934, at 12 o'clock Nooo, to transact the ordinary business of the Company.
AND NOTICE 18.HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, the 2nd to FRIDAY, the 16th February,' 1934, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 25th January, 1934.
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HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. TUTICE is hereby given that the i
Onlinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in this Corporation will be held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., 18, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Saturday, the 24th February 1934, at 11.30 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1933.
The Register of Shares of the Cor- poration will be closed from Monday, the 12th February to Saturday, the 24th February, 1934 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered. By Order of the Board of Directors,
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Maunger. Hong Kong, 5th February, 1934.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1934, 24TH. ZATH, 27TH, 28TH FEBRUARY, AND 3RD MARCH, 1934.
N Saturday 24th, Monday 20th, 27th, and Wednesday 28th February, the first bell will be rung at 1, and the first race will be run at 11.30 am. On Saturday, the 3rd March, the first hell will be
rang at 1.30 pm, and the first race
will be run at 20 p.m....
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The tin interval will be taken after the fifth-race on the first four days.
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURE.
Members are reminded that they and their lad es must wear their bad- ges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at 80.00 per day, including tax-or $400 including tax for the Meeting (ladies £8.00 and $20.00 respectively), are obta nable through|
Badges admitting to Members' Eu- closure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.
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Hoxo Koso,Feeruary 14, 1934.
CHINESE NEW YEAR.
Although the observation
of
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CONTINENTAL She Was
CABLE NEWS
THE ARMY
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Far East Changes
(Special Air-Mall Service)
German Officers Take New Oath
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Only A Cobbler's
Daughter!
BUT SHE HOAXED
ALL ENGLAND
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been New Hight has recently thrown on one of the most whole- sale hoaxes on record—a hoax that was swallowed by learned from various parts of the world
interest and curiosity.
men
NEWS SUMMARY ~
The dally freight returns from the Harbour Office will be found on Page 15.
Starting times for the holiday golt at Fanling are published on Fage. 10.
Home football forecast and aft mall news will be found on Page 10.
St. Joseph's College held their annual prize giving yesterday. Details will be found on Page 7.`
A football match, in aid of Cheero Club funds, has been ar- ranged between a Combined Chi- the Colony on Sunday, 18th inst, De-". nese team and the Rest
tails will be found on Pagę, 10.
been The s.s. Haining has
floated on Page 7.
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London, January 27. Major-General Ernest O. Lewin, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who has gone to Singapore, where the naval con- ference is in progress, is one of several new commanders in the Far
Berin, Feb. 12. East Brigadier F. 6. Thackeray,
Allegiance of all members of or- D.S.O., M.C., has recently assumed command in Shanghal, and Brevet anisations of higher military offi- Colonel F. R. W. Graham, D.SO., cers to the National Socialist re-and that set ait England agog with M.C., promoted from Beutenant-gime was solemnly pledged on
On April 3, 1817 a young, comely, colonel on Tuesday, will assume Monday by their spokesman Von
black shawls wound turban-wise. command of the Shanghai Volun- der Golta, chief of the national dark-eyed woman, with red. and Lew league "for officers of the teer Corps.
about her head, was found wan- Brigadier A J. Ellis, D.S.O., Army, Navy, and aviation newly at Tientsin, and Brigadier which just absorbed all officers dering at the village of Almonds- C. A. Lyon, D.$.O., will leave short-clubs associations and fraternities ury, near Bristol, and taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Worall of Knola Park. ly to assume command at Colombo, existing hitherto.
President Hindenburg accorded a The relief troops "in the "Pacifc
She told them in a gibberish zone this year and early in 1935 special audience to Von der Goltz who declared that the new organ-
mixed with Malay and Arable are the 1st Battalion, 8th Punjab ation to which all German off-words, and by outlandish gestures, Regiment, And Battalion, The
cers belong acknowledges, unreser- that she was Princess Caraboo of Worcestershire Regiment, 2nd Bat- vedly loyalty to the new regime Javasu abducted by pirates from tallon, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, and will strictly refrain from any her home and deserted at Bristol, delivered 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch form of political activity tending For ten weeks Caraboo lived with namara at the Rotary Club yes-
Learned" men, Hn-terday, on Page..7, Fusiliers, 1st Battalion, The Royal to embarass the Hitler's Govern- the Woralis. Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Bat- talion. The East Lancashire Regiment but stands ready for uncon-guists and world travellers nock-
ditional service at any time.ed to see her and listen to ment. and 1st Battalion. The Transocean Kuo Min.
strange language, East Lancashire Regiment, and 1st Battalion The South Wales Borderers. Those scheduled in the present trooping "season have al- ready charged station in relief of other battaliqua.
Troop Movements.
The 64th Batery, R.A., has moved to Jhansi, and the 73rd has gone to Allahabad. The 1st Battalion, The
will Devonshire Regiment, move by march route to Razmak next week, and is due on March The 1st Battalion, The Rife Brigade, now on passage home, is due at Malta on Sunday, where a turnover draft will be landed for the 2nd Battalion, The 15/19th The King's Royal Hussars are due at Port Said to-morrow, and will leave on the same day for South- ampton.
ROYAL AIR FORCE
Officers for Singapore. Three officers from the home es- tablishment are appointed in to- day's list to the Far East Command
MARRIAGES IN GERMANY..
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Press" (Copyright.)?
Berlin, February 12:
It is officially reported that in the 3rd quarter of 1933 the number of mariages was 100.100 compared with 75.000 during the same period of the previous year. The number
of births in excess over death was 5.5 per thousand compared with 5,1 per thousand in 1932 - This
4s taken as a sign of reviving
confidence in the future.—Trans- ocean Kuo Min.
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GERMAN DEBTS
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dalle Press" (Copyright.)}
Objections by certain clubs Bt North paint to the proximity of a Proposed sewage drain was Indi- cated at the Santary Bord meeting yesterday on Page 7
An address on "Arbitration" was
by Mr. H. C. Mac
An article on racing by. "Mor- herning Dew appears on Page 1.
The amazing part of the whole case is that this uneducated cob bler's daughter proved such a con- summate actress that never for a
moment did she give herself away, although all sorts of traps were laid for her. One gentleman an- nounced to her that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met, and she never stirred a hair. Conclusive proof of genuineness, they said! She was taken to Bath, dressed in a turban struck with and all peacock feathers, the quality flocked to pay court to
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her. The newspapers were full of the
the doitiga of mysterious Asiatic princess. Ал Eastern traveller brought her a Malay sword and dagger, and she gave éxtraordinary expert exhibitions of fencing. She persisted in climb ing to the roof to play. Caraboo
The definition of ghee was the subject of considerable discussion at Central Magistracy yesterday when a Chinese shopkeeper was fined 805 for selling adulterated ghen.
Page 11..
DISARMAMENT MEETING
London, February 12. .In view of the meeting of off!- als of the Disarmament Bureau in Lendon to-morrow, Mr. Arthur henderson as President of the sarmament Conference, has been supplied with a statement from the Pritish Government on recent ne- gotiations.
the
Dr. Benes, Rapporteur of the Bureau, reached London this after- noon and was greeted by became a growing wonder, until Czelho-slovakian Minister and a finally she was exposed by a wo-representative of Foreign Secre Berlin. February 12.
man with whom she had stayed for tary-British Wireless. Minister for Economics a short time in Bristol; and the eagerly refuted the allegations
The
!!
of German bonds instead of re-
LOCAL AND GENERAL
ese make it a point of visiting for duty at Singapore, where there raised abroad that Germany had whole story came out." Caraboo's real name was Mary Baker, & these fairs to buy gold fish, Aow-are now three RAF squadrons, used considerable amounts of fore-Devonshire servant girl She had ers, and other articles for the de- two of torpedo bombers and one of ign currency for the redemption picked up her knowledge of the
flying boats.
East from a foreigner in London coration of their homes while chil-
Squadron Leader K. B Lloyd, deeming other debts Arst.
The minister declared that since and had previously begged suc- yesterday for Shanghai. dren get their toys and
sweet-AF.C., from No. 204 (F.B.) Squa the beginning of 1933 no foreign cessfully in the guise of a Spanish | meats.
woman.
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dron at Mount Batten, is going to
Chi-No 205 (FB.) Squadron, the first to be stationed at Bingapore, having sent there in 1827 as the Far East Flight. Squadron · Leader Lloyd
the
Sandhurst
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Was
currencies have been released by the Relchsbank for the purchase of German bonds.
The discovery of the hoax set all Erigland laughing. She was push- Bonds purchased in the meantime ed off to America and eventually must have been paid by means of returned to Bristol, where she lived transfer-scrips in connection with to the age of 72, always strange in ALDY her dress and always followed by additional export without detriment to other German credi- urchins shouting "Caraboo." tors--Transocean Kuo Min.
both
were
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Puller -left
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Mr T. H. R. Shaw of Messrs. Butterfield
Swire left Shanghai yesterday.
for
We take this opportunity of sing
our Chinese readers Happy New Year.
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There will be no issue of the Daily Press" on Thursday. Pub-
*
THE NOISES OF LIBRARIES lication will be resumed on Friday. Mr. J. Wilson of King's College proceeded on leave yesterday via Canada by the Empress of Japan.
Those who do research at the Public Record Office have been'
J
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Japan" on transfer.
...
From time immemorial the nese have looked upon the "four major festivals of the year as the settling days among business men. and trist and The Royal Welch In spite of the fact that here to Fusiliers, and was decorated for Hongkong a great deal of the services in France and Mesopo- business is done with Europeans, 1926-28. In
tamia. He last served abroad 1
Iraq, where he
MR. LIU CHUNG CHIEH the inter-Chinese business is still Adjutant of the Aircraft Depot. carried on with the festivals us
Squadron Leader L. G. Maxton, | [Special to the “Hong Kong Dally settling days. All accounts are li-who goes to Singapore for per-
Press" (Copyright.)] quidated before the first day of the the R.F.C..from the Army, and was sonnel staff duties, also came to
Berlin, Feb. 12. first moon, and a suspension of decorated while in command of The new Chinese Minister at heard to complain facetiously that Mr. E. R. 1, manager of Messrs. business for seven days is still a No. 444 Flight in China in, the Berlin, Liu Chung Chleb, lunched the clattering of sheepskins occa- Dodwell & Co, at Canton proceed- cruiser Vindictive in 1925-28. He on Monday with the German Club sionally has a detrimental effected by the Empress of Japan LO feature of the new year.
has since served with various fly- when many well-known people be-on connected thought. It is a moot point whether the ing-boat squadrons at home, and longing to German-Chinese trade, As the result of a call which I Chinese in Hongkong will forsake for the past two years has been on members of the German Foreign happened to make there yester- Mr. L. R. Cromer of the Nation- this festival in years to come. The the staff at Calshot, the principal Office, and prominent persons from day I can state that old docu- al City Bank of New York pro- majority of them do not in the base and instructional establish organisations closely allied to the ments, whether vellum or sheep-ceeded on leave yesterday by the
ment for flying boats.
German-China Club attended. In skin, do not make for quiet read- Empress of Japan." Squadron Leader H. S. Scroggs, an address of welcome the Chair-ing. Lead weights are used to hold the Secretary upon introduction by a Chinese New Year is officially ban- least observe January 1, as the
Messrs. Foronha & Co. have Member, such Member to be responsi-ned by the Nanking Government commencement of a new year but who takes up navigation duties at man. Admiral Retzmann expressed down the long rolls of vellum; at
regret that not all the hopes the intervals, I heard a roll snap back issued the usual race books in con- ble for all chita, etc.
the Chinese population, no matter wait patiently for the twelfth Singapore was in the Navy before
Club had entertained concerning and its weight thud heavily on the nection with the coming meeting. and during the War, entering as moon to come round, when they a cadet at Osborne in 1909. After mission of study, that visited China
the results of the com- floor.
They are being sold at 50 cents where situated, is still as keen as
Every library probably has its each, or $2.50 for the set of five. set about in earnest to prepare for being, a midshipman of the Mon had yet been fulfilled, but this was own characteristic noise. In the ever on celebrating the passing of
the New Year Festival. Notwith-arch he went in for airship duties, The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor the old lunar year and the com-
Mr. Lai Kwok Pul from Canton Gloucester Building, (Tel. 27794).
crisis whereby
Germany leaves echoes on 1915. He resigned his naval com and Chinese
the roof as if left yesterday by the Empress of suffering. rain were falling. In certain club Japan, he is director of the WILL CLOSE A 10 am. ON THE mencement of a new one. At the standing the current trade depresand transferred to the R.N.A.S. in only because of the world economic British Museum the turning of FIRST FOUR DAYS, AND AT time of the Revolution in China sion with accompanying dimi-mission in 1919 on being granted a
He hoped that under Adolf libraries, deep, rhythmic breathing Kwangs! Mechanical Aircraft Pac- in the Hitler Germany would go 12.30 p.m ON THE FIFTH DAY."
on sometimes indicates that Morpheus tory at Lrichow and is proceeding only one calendar was recognised nution in trade, a spirit of holiday permanent commission A limited number of iffins will be and although twenty-three years
and good fellowship pervades the RAF and has since
served in better in the future whereby poll- has claimed yet another captive to the United States, and Europe. Egypt and Iraq. For the past tical and economic relationships from the Muses, obtainable each day at the Club House,
"between Germany and China provided they are ordered in advance have passed since the overthrow atmosphere. The small man with four years he has been on the staff from the No. 1 "Boy, Telephone No. of the Manchus, it was but recent- but a few dollars as capital invests at the College at Cranwell
would be considerably improved. 2:920.
Liu Chung Chieh replying said ly that the adoption of the Grego- it in "New Year Goods" t
his country was one above all Un no pratext will children bo per rian calendar was fostered. The hope of enjoying a ready sale. The mittel in either enclosure during the
shopkeeper and merchant, there- others that could understand and principal idea behind the change middle class spend upon this occafore, it would appear that the past sympathise with the general situa- first four days of the Meeting.
was that China should be in keep- sion more than they would in or twelve months have been trying tion in Germany and its endea- next Yours in the sphere of interna- ing with the rest of the world so dinary times, while the business ches. The outlook for the The price of admission to, the Public far as settling days and business magnate and the well-to-do mer. twelve months does not hold out too i tional politics to fight for a
much promise, and it appears, for equality of status among nations of the world Transocean Kuo holidays were concerned. But old chant casts aside the weariness the time being at least, that a traditions die hard and those who and pessimism that are essential gruelling period Bles ahead of the Min. had been brought up to look upon features of their Ke during a business community. Chinese New Year as one of the slump, and forget in the festivi- The building boom a few years ago has resulted in the putting up Bookmakers, Tie Tac men etc. will biggest festivals on the calendar ties, the pervading policy of econoof a vast number of houses and not be permitted to operate within the could not be pursuaded to forsake my. For them, "cumshaws" are an there is such a surplus of Chinese precincts of The Hong Kong Jockey it altogether, so much so, that it inseparable part of the New Year, flats to-day that some house own- Club during the Race Meeting
Tiffins will be obtainable in the became necessary to enforce the whatever the outlook!
It is perhaps not out of place to tenants while others have had to Restaurant in the Public Enclosure. non-observation of the lunar New examine the business situation make considerable reductions in
Year by official action. BEBTANTS' PASSES.
here as seen from the Chinese rent to retain theirs. viewpoint. That the year has been The bad year, however, is ended. Passes for Servants will be issned While the occasion is not cele- an exceptionally bad one, none can Ahead les a new period without on application to the Secretary, and brated in Chinese" eftles, there is gainsay. The continued civil com- much promise, admittedly, but who Floor, Gloucester Building.",
Employers are requested to distri. little doubt what attitude the motion in China has not helped knows what is in store and what matters; and for the Hongkong the tide of events may bring. It is bate them with discrimination and to population adopts towards the merchant, who buys from the for- dangerous to be dogmatic especial. endorse their names on the passes. festival, In Hongkong. where elgn importer and sells to his cus-ly with the Celestial Land and its
Servants are not permitted in the there are
tamers "up-country," the imposi-wonderful recuperative "powers no restrictions Members' Enclosure except for passing way or the other, there is no authorities has made things more
tion of new taxes by the Chinese when a slump can be turned into a boom practically over night. through on their duties but must
the difficult. The low rate of the dol- For the time being it is New Year the twelfth of the Supreme Coun- remain in their employers' stands want of indications that
lar has not increased the buying and with the booming of the crac-ell of Defence took place to-day at Any persons found loitering with celebration of Chinese New Year power of his clients, and the set-kers, the fairs, and the holidays, Palace Venezia" under the Prest-ment will be initialled on Thurs-gapore, of the Philippine Islands, Servante passen in their possession is still very much
observed. tlement of accounts from the in-thoughts on business will have to dence of the Head of the Govern-day, according to will forfeit the same and will be
The fairs, which at
one time terior has been very slow in com- take second place. It is time for ment removed from the enclosure.
used to be such ́à feature of Ing.
a little optimism and relaxation, In the presence
esence of the Chief of will only be temporary since it has Hall about the future, pretre. Business locally has been mark and the Chinese cómmunity will stan of the "Militia," Mussolini been proved impossible to clear Church in the South-western the New Year, have now to be con-ed by keen competition and the not be slow to take advantage of reviewed the squadrons of the way the political financial ob Pacife. Details of arrangements fined to certain fixed areas due to shop-keeper has bad to cut his it and return to the fray, hearten. "Musketeers? on their 11th an-stacles standing in the way of a will be announced later but it is the growth of motor trafne. Never- pronts down to a minimum. Overed and refreshed. We wish our niversary of their foundation and definite treaty. The Agreement will hoped that the Bishops of the head expenses, also, have had to Chinese friends a happy and pros- expressed his satisfaction for their require ratification by Parliament Philippine Islands and of Labuan theless there is still a good deal of be curtalled, while it has been parous New Year. "Kung Sze Fat | marvellous activities Transocean before coming into force. Trans- and Sarawak will preach in the enthusiasm for them, Most Chin difficult to obtain credit. For both Ching."
ocean Kuo Min.
Cathedral on Bunday, February 25,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
Enclosure is $4.50 per day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate..
4.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at $1.00 per day including tax.
C. B. BROWN,
By Order,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, 11th February, 1884.
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one
ers have found it difficult to find
GENERAL SUN GIVES
UP
Arrested on the hillside near the Tung Lee Chan Distillery, Shauki- wan, in possession of 188 taels ur. raw oplum, Tam Muk Shul, a stonebreaker, was fined $3,700 or one year's. hard labour, on being brought before. Mr. Hamilton in the Central Magistracy yesterday. Peiping, February 13. Realizing he is nearing the end The Rev. W." W. Rogers will be of his tether., Sun Tien Ying is leaving Hong Kong for good soon reported to have approached after Easter. By the time he goes foreign missionaries in Ninghaia he will nearly have completed. BALBO WELL RECEIVED with a request to mediate with a twenty-five years in the diocese, view to bringing a cessation to the just over seven years, as Vicar of (Special to the "Hong Kong Dally hostilities.
St. Andrew's Kowloon, and the rest Press" (Copyright.)]
Ma Hung Kuel claims he disas a missionary. Bengast, February 12. posed of the Invaders south of theį The Governor HE. "Italo Balbo city and orders have been given Charged with stealing a quantity continued to visit all the centres in Shanai to Bul Yuan troops to of brass, copper and red lead from in Cyrenaica where he was made attack the invaders from the rear. Taikoo Dockyard, Chan Shing,
vaj coolie, was the object of warm manifestations
two sentenced to 'months' hard labour at the Central of sympathy by the native pópula- tion as well as the metropolitans.
Magistracy yesterday, Mr. Bird, of Transocean Kuo Min....
the dockyard, remarked that there were numerous: thefts on the up- proach of the Chinese New Year. Be careful they do not steal one of your ships from you," laughing- 1y remarked his Worship..
MUSKETEERS HEVIEWED
[Special to the “Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright, )1
Rome, February 12. The first reunion of the year and
-Renter.
RUSSO-BRITISH TRADE AGREEMENT
Ri
(By Telegraph, Oupyright, Telegra phic Messager Ordinance, 1834. ceived, February 18, 7:80 p.m.)
Hong Kong becomes à centre for the Anglican Church in this part The Russo-British Trade Agree- February 25. The Bishops of Bin- London, February 13.- of the world from February 29 to
Press reports and of Labuan and Barawak will which state that the Agreement be here to take council with Bishop
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