NEW ́ ́ ́ADVERTISEMENTS.
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.
THE
'HE Offices and Stations of the CHINESE MARITIME CUS- TOMS for Kowloon and District will be CLOSED to PUBLIC BUSINESS on the 12TH MARCH, 1834, being a CUSTOMS HOLIDAY.
E. N. ENSOR,
Commissioner of Chinese Customs,
Kowloon and District.
Tork Building.
· Hong Kong, 7th March, 1934.
NOTICE.
(9341
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
RE CALL
THE Company recently made a
call of 98.75 per share in respect of the partly paid abures in the capital of the Company which Was payable by the registered holders on or before, the 15th December, 1993.
Some of such registered share- holders, have not paid the call and the Company has notified those of such registered holders who are also the registered holders of fully paid shares that, unless payment of such call together with interest thereon is paid to the Company on or before the 28th day of MAROH, 1934, the Directors will, in addition to their other remedies. take steps to obtaiu payment by selling such fully paid shares in accordance with the powers conferred on the Company by its Articles..
It is realised that in some cases both partly pail and fully pail shares standing on the register in the name of the same shareholder have both been sold to the same person but that such person has taken-no steps to have his name put on the register.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8,
Dewar's
"White Label"
WHISKY
Sole Agents:
HMENT TO HIS MAJESTY PARKED
Priar Ho
White Label EST SCOTCH WHISH
OF CREAT AGE
Job Dewar & Sons
DISTILLERS
PERI
V
A.-S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
EST. 1842,
While the Company can only deal with such shares 'in accordance with. the share register it considers t advisable, though under no legal. obligation to do so, to warn unregis tered purchasers of such partly paid. and fully paid shares of the intention. of the Company in the event of any call not being paid on or before the 28th day of MARCH, 1934, to en- force its power of sale as regards Night Editor (Wanchal Office) Moreover, the possibility is
such fully aid shares.
By Order of the Board,
ALLAN KEITH,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, March, 7th 1934. (2342
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
that the FOURTH ORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Registered Offices of the Com pany, King's Theatre Building, 5th floor, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, 1934, at 12 o'clock noon to receive the Directors' Report, and Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1933, to elect Auditors, and to transact such other business a may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.
And Notice is further hereby given that the Register and Transfer Booke of the Company will be olored from the 12th to the 21st day of March, 1984, both days inclusive,
LIANG CHI HAO, " Managing Director. Hong Kong, 28th February, 1834.
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED.
(2325
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
Editorial and Business Office: 1)
Ice House Street. Tel. 3025)
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 33, Fleet Street,
E.C. 4
The Daily Press.
"Hong Kong, March 8, 1934.
THE SILENT GUNS
Those who were privileged to
hear the eloquent address of Dr. Norwood at the Rotary Club last
week must have been struck by the sheer force of the arguments against war which the speaker ad- vanced. The brilliance of the speech and the feeling with
dous toll of He and money which a modem war involves has stayed the hands of would-be disputants.
great that a future war, once started, will embroil the whole world. The responsibility is a great one and
the moral condemnation of the country which might involve the world in another turmoil is such that nations are slow. to adopt hostilities as a means of settling differences. Consequently to quote Dr. Norwood, "against the econo-
CHINA RIVER” TRAGEDY
Over Two Hundred Deaths
1934.
CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Freas" (Capuright.)]
STAVISKY PARLIAMENT"
TRAIN OF CULTURE
Paris, March 8. Protest meetings have been held, in the Place de la Concorde against (From Our Special Correspondent) the "Stavisky Parliament." Boule
vards and apaches in increasing numbers are wearing a button in the lapela of their coat with the in- algnia to represent the scandal.
Canton, March, 7. Two hundred and eleven bodies were picked up from the river fol- lowing the sinking of the Sze Hot motor vessel which piled between Canton and Sze Wul, a town on the Little North River. Among the dënd were 22 women, according to a report of the Fong Bin Hospi- tal.
The bodies were "burled to-day by the Fong Pin Hospital, which is a charitable institution, About 80 en and women were rescued from the wreck. Some of the bodies were claimed by relatives who identified them at the hos-
pital.
The fated vessel was licensed
NEWS SUMMARY
The Sincere Company were summoned before Mr. Hamilton at Central Magistracy yesterday for 1.moving liquor without the permission of the Revenue Office: Karlsruhe, March 6... In gratitude for two free-per-for the defence, on Page 11.
Mr F. C. Jenkin, K. C..appeared formances given by the State Theatre of Baden before 2,500 workers of the famous automobile works Daimler Bens the workers are being charged with exporting. The Ave Chinese shippers who donated to the theatre by volun- unmanifested cargo aboard the s... carily renouncing part of their Sandviken were alleged "L'Oeuvre" publishes a list of wages for an automobile-train con- smugglers, on Page 6. men mixed up with Stavisky, insisting of three cars. This so-called cluding several leading politicians "Train of Culture will enable the and a leading official of the Cr-theatre to visit smaller places in minal Investigation department- the country thus spreading culture Transocean Kuo Min.
and art among the country popu- lation-Transocean Kuo Min.
SUBJUGATING TRIBESMEN
Paris, March 6. Military operations in South
:
CITY HALL STORMED
Farls, March 6.
27
Many unemployed men held a meeting in the St. Nazaire district
to
be.
At the annual dinner of the Portu- guese Company, H.E. Volunteers held at Club Lusitano last night, Capt. Jarvis mado a stirring appeal for more recruits,
Page 7.
including a number of Royalists Morocco which began on February pansies at the annual dower show Lady Peel won the first prizes, for
and attacked Municipal offices, 25 with subjugating the unruly staged by the Horticultural Society wrecking several public buildings tribes in the regions of anti-Atlas at the Volunteer Headquarters and homes of several prominent and on the big plains stretching yesterday.
Page 7. members of the Oppisition Party.
to the Sahara, have already been concluded thanks to the advance
The rioters stormed the City to carry only 102 passengers be-Hall smashing all the glass. The motorisation in the French The Monthly Meeting of the cause of her shallow draught, but same sort of destruction took place colonial troops, according to Press Chinese General Chamber of Com- on the last voyage the ship car at a Catholic Church where the reports which add that only now merce was held yesterday when cled over 500 passengers on board parsonage was thoroughly plun-have they actually been extended several matters of interest was dis and on a big sampan under tow.dered
to the frontiers of
the Spanish cussed. With such heavy weight, a slight
colony Rio Deora.-Transocean Ust caused the ship to capsize.
Kao Min.
Kuo
The police were forced to call out the military to assist in quel- As a precaution against future Ing the riot-Transocean disasters, the Provincial Depart- Min. ment of Reconstruction requires that hereafter, in any construction of shallow water craft the design must be first submitted to the Department for approval. At the same time the ships must not carry more passengers than space allows.
Ship owners who fall to comply with these requirements will be fined. The Port Affairs Adminis- tration is instructed to draw up regulations governing the safety of and emergency measures for river shipping.
Rumours
that
How
J