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.... IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HỒNG KÔNG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
-IN THE GOODS or MARCO CHU (BNC) ALIAS UBU PU NUN TUNG TAIE) AL14B CHU PU NUN, (MC) Late or TAI Six DiarENHART MA WANG MIAO NANCHANG IN THE PROVINCE OF Klanga IN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA DISPENSER DECEASED.
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TOTICE IS BEREBY GIVEN that the Court has, by virtue
of the provisions of Section
Ordinance, No. 2 of 1807
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time
made for
ordur limiting the ereditors and other to send in their claims against the above Estate, to the
lra Day or MAY, 1994.
All Creditors and others are accord- ingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before
that date.
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Administrator,
1, Des Vous Road, Central,
THE
Hong Kong.
NOTICE,
fers!
HE Annual General Meeting of HI, K. W. G. & M. C. L. will
be held at The Helenn May Tnatitute on Tuesday, April 17th, at 10.30 A.M.
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THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.
1ST EXTRA RACE MEETING.
"O
WING to insuficient Entries. Race No. 6 (The Ascot
Handicap) is cancelled and the following is substituted:~...
N. 6. The Volunteers' Handicap " (Unofficial). For China
Ponies ertified by the 0.0 Machine Gun Troop H. K. V. D. C. Regular Troop Ponies. To be ridden by Members of the Troop. Winner $125.- Second 875-Third, $5 Enfranco Fee $5.8ix Fur- jooga.
By order of the Stewards,
S. W, CHENG,
Secretary.
A, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,"
No
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-ninth Annual Ordinary General Mooting of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, ou TUESDAY, the 17th April, 1934, at 11.30 am., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managera, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 1st October, 1983.
The-Register of Shares of the Company will be closed from Thursday, the 12th day of April to Wednesday the 18th day of April, 1984, both days inclusive; during which period no transfer of shares "can be registered.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON General Managers. Hong Kong, 6th April, 1934.
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task of entertaining the wounded, writing letters for them when necessary, and helping to give them the sense of being at home. Toward the end of the war, the castle had been the special refuge of men and officers from overseas.
CANTON'S BANK NOTES
Efforts At Stabilisa- tion
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, April 13. Mr. Kok Tse Ting. well-known "farmer" of government taxes. paid $1,000,000 in coins wand $1,500,000 in provincial banknotes to the Provincial Department of Finance to be used to stabilise the notes of the Kwangtung Provin-
elal Bank.
Tobacco merchants are willing to advance $1,500,000 in cash, and Mr. Kok will advance another
THE
ARMY
DEATH OF COL. LYNCH
NEWS SUMMARY
The Boxer Troubles In China hangm concubine who was chart.
(Special Air-mall Service)
summarised as follows:
Fought against Britala in the South African War as Colonel, of the "Irish Brigade."
a
tion
ter
Lt. Col G. T. Ralkes, D.S.O., will be given farewell parade ext week by the 1st Battalion the South Wales Borderers. Page 7 The case against Cheung Tsoi-
ed the Kowloon Magistracy with theft of a sum of money and jewellery, was yesterday withdrawn by counsel for the prosecution.-
Page 6 To-morroir's Soccer classic be- tween the Hong Kong Football London, March 28. | General Dorward arrived on June Chinese Amateur Athletic Associa
Association and the Col Arthur Lynch, physician, 26 with some small reinforcements
Hong Kong author, and one-time Member of
to assume command of the mis-
Page 10 died in St. Mary's cellaneous Parliament,
British forces, the
Arrangements for the selection Hospital, Paddington. yesterday, in his 73rd year,
American marines, and a Russian of China's Olympic football team Col Lynch had a career as Austrian marines. Fighting took China team from Shanghai is due contingent, also later a party of are now in hand and the Eastern amazing as that of any man in place outside Tientsin, until the in the Colony soon: this country. It may be briefly, city was finally
Page 7 taken after a Playing at King's Park yester- smart action later in July. Soon the Indian division, commanded Club by 3 goals to 1 in their Trian- day, the Royal Navy defeated the by General Gaselee, arrived in Rular Tournament Hockey encoun- China, and Dorward was there- upon left to conduct the minor
Page 11 operations in North China lying
A new shot put record was set outside the sphere at General
up yesterday at the heats for the Gaselee's rellef of Legations. He also conducted
the Peking H.K.V.D.C. sports.
Page 11 Our Macao News Letter is giv- small expedition to discharged various other duties.
Tu-lu and en on
Page 7 with complete success,
As usual, the final selections
wel as Military and Civil Commis latest news regarding the different Finally, he was left at Wei-hatches are given together with the for to-day's Home Football mat-
stoner to carry out the terms of teams on the settlement that followed the fall of Peking. In this capacity he levied taxes, built roads and bridges, undertook public works, and administered justice with an iron hand. shot by his orders. When he left Several pirates were the British Concession was pacii- ed and contented, while the public funds were in credit Later, he went to Shanghai in command of troops, and was finally recalled to England in April, 1902. He was made a CB, and then a KCB. for DORWARD
his work in China. As the paper money is regaining
Before Major-General Sir Arthur Dor-arthur was again sent to the East.
the erd Its value, the Department of Finward, late R.E, died yesterday. this time as colonel on the Staff of 1902 Sir
$1,000,000 in the next few days. The total amount loaned to the Départment of Finance is fixed at $5,000,000. Although the $1,500,000 advanced by Mr. Kok, in bank- notes cannot be used as reserve for the redemption of government notes, this sum will be withdrawn from circulation and ate as good as redeemed.
Condemned to death as traitor after a trial in London
Commutation of sentence, fol- lowed by his release.
Became Nationalist M.F. for West Clare.
Colonel in the British Army in consequence of these big
during the European War. loans, the provincial banknotes "While under treatment at the are recovering their value. To- hospital during the last four day they were valued at 95 cents months for 巍 serious internal per dollar. If the loans are of complaint, Col "Lynch was operat- any remedy, the notes should re-ed upor by Dr. Zachary Cope, the cover the full value by the next abdominal surgeon, who was a ten days. This applies of course contemporary of his when he was only to those paper money of 35 training for the medical profes- and $1 denominations, while no sion in the wards of St. Mary's. date has yet been fixed for the After two operations, between redemption of the notes of $10 which he went to the seaside to denomination.
recuperate. Col. Lynch appeared to make good progress, but yester- day he had a relapse.
It was learned that after the $5 and $1 notes are accepted in full value, the $10 notes will likewise regain their full amount. At pre- sent their market value is about 50 cents per dollar.
ance orders that after April 15, the notes are not allowed to be openly quoted at the money mar- ket. At present, all money chan- gers prepare written quotations on the value of the government notes as well as the exchange rate of the Hong Kong and Mexican dollars. The Government assumes
that the notes will recover full value by April 15 and should not be further quoted in the money market.
and the future Duchess had this GERMAN BAN ON
PRAVDA
with For Repeated Libel
Of German People
been preparing herself uncon- sciously for her work as a Royal Princess, much of whose life was to be spent in making rapid ac- quaintanceship with people from all parts of the Empire; and en- tering into their interests quick sympathy. It was, there- fore, no ordinary young couple who explored the historic castle together, and it is not surprising. that before a year had passed, the King and Queen formally announced the engagement of their second son to the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strath- more.
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To enter the royal family means
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General Meeting of Share- holders will be held in the Offices of Messrs..Dodwell & Co., Ltd, on Monday, 23rd April, 1934, at 1 a.m. for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers A together with a statement of "Ao- counts to 31st December, 1933. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 16th to 23rd April 1934, both dates inclusive. DODWELL & CO., LTD.
General Managers,
Hong Kong, 9th April, 1934.
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His wife and two women friends were with him when he died,
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR A, B, F.
* "
says a Reuter telegram, after # long illness at Terreno, Palma Majorca, where he had been living
and Commander of the British In July, 1905, he was promoted troops in the Straits Settlements.
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4.
Page IC. News of interest to engineers and builders will be found on
Page 2 The wireless programmes for: M) and Daventry for to-day and Hong Kong (ZBW) Manila (KZR to-morrow are given on Page 4
The Diary of Local Events: giv ing the Colony's social and sport- ing. functions is published on
Page
**
Around the Courts, a daily tea- ture giving all the cases. in local Courts. is published on Page 6 The Cat and the Fiddle, the ex- clusive serial story enters into its fourth chapter to-day. Page 3 "Your Views and Mine" Our
for the last two years, at the age major-general, and had to leave tekly feature appears on Page 7
of 85.
THE VANEYCK PANEL
The name of General Dorward Singapore to assume a higher ap- The prospects of to-day's race will always be linked with that pointment- namely, that. of are fully discussed on Page 1 remarkable military
"Another episode major-general in charge of ad-
house which, at the opening of the pre- ministration in South Africa. It
in Bonham Strand was sold by public auction sent century, marked the begin-
is said that Lord Kitchener had yesterday.
Page & ning of the long series of troubles asked for his appointment as
Final gallops at the coarse yes, that have since agitated Chins C.G.M.G in India, but in vain. terday appear on On that occasion. he played his In Africa Dorward remained until
Page 10 part in the traditional manner of his retirement in July, 1910, on the British soldier called upon to reaching the statutory age of 62. cope with a "grave emergency. He Four years later the Great War was indeed an officer of whom the broke out. With the growth of Corps of Royal Engineers had the new armies novel problems. for every reason to be proud. Though accommodating the freshly-raised he did not pass the Staff College, troops arose, and Sir Arthur Dor- or attempt to qualify for high, ap-ward was summoned from Norway pointments in other respects, yet by Lord Kitchener to undertake he showed such a keen bustness the hutting of Colonial troops on Insight and strength of purpose Salisbury Plain. When that was that he always excelled in difficult done he was appointed Inspector clrcumstances. He possessed of Hutting at the War Office, distinction of bearing and of
having supervision of all military speech and a high ideal of duty camps and roads in Great Britain which impressed all who knew and Ireland, and held the post till him, and enabled him to deal the end of the War. He was a successfully with Orientals general-
ly, and also with the international contingents with which he came into contact in Chias.
Arthur
Stolen By Foreigner?
Brussels, April 13. The theory is advanced that the theft of the Vaneyck Panel (from St. Bayon Chent) is the work of a Geriman Becret
The panel is one that was formerly in Berlin, and it is stated a number of valuable objects in the Cathedral, including precious stones, were not touched by the thieves while a foreigner with a strong
German accent had been inquiring in the neighbourhood about the hours of opening and closing of the Cathedral.-Reuter.
Daily Press. cirele, united in devotion, 40-of formerly & Bulgarian national and india to jom, the Stad-as Bappers bory trembled in the balance, th
Colonel Commandant of the Royal Society formed to efface the con- Engineers, also Colonel of the 2nd
sequences of the Versailles Treaty. Queen Victoria's Owen "Sappers. Robert Ford, son of and Miners. He was a Fellow of James Dorward, Inspector-General the Linnean Society. He was me Dotacamund on July 13, 1848. Ee of Hospital, Madras, was born at married. was at Edinburgh High School and
THE FIFTH ARMY PARADES at Cheltenham, and from the
AGAIN' Military Royal
Academy WGS
In the placid spring sunshine of gazetted into the Royal Engineers
a London Bunday, a little group in July, 1865. He played football
of men, perhaps a hundred, strong, and cricket for the Corps, and
with medals on their civilian both in the routine of peace clothes gathered on the soldiering and when ordered on Horse Guards Parade. admirably. In 1870 he went to had fought desperately while his- active' service he acquitted himself
Bixteen years ago some of them
past and the bugler sounded Last Post
The ranks formed column and and Miners, "and was almost at once selected for service in the banner told the story: "Fifth marched to the Cenotaph, General Public Works Department, For Army, 1916-1918, Old Comrades Sir Hubert Gough, the Army's old his irrigation work during the Association." famine of 1876-7 he received the stiffening again to attention in against the plinth. Then back to commander, is abroad. Col H,,.C. The present-grey-haired men, Murgatroyd, M.C., placed a wreath
their *clvvles,' Sunday strollers the Horse Guards Parade.
"I know," said Col. Murgatroyd
HONG KONG, APEIL, I 1934,"
MODERN PRINCE AND
PRINCESS
of
Berlin, April 12, to sacrifice much that a young Pravda, central organ of the Com- The leading Soviet newspaper wife count most dear-the privacy,munist Party of the Soviet Union the quiet home, life, the oppor- was forbidden inside the Reich on tunity of being much with her
Thursday for an indefinite period, It means living con- stantly for other people's It is generally, assumed that the terests, and having little time for reason for this drastle action is re- one's own.
peated libel of the German people But it also means entering a
and government appearing in this warm-hearted
organ recently and in particular and loyal family a series of articles by Dimitrof common cause-the well-being 400,000,000 people. The Duchess of
one of those tried for complicity York has won all hearts by the but finally acquitted, and on being in the burning of the Reichstag willing way in which she has faced ber public duty, and by the given, Russian nationality by the womanly affection which has kept ed to Russia.
Soviet Government was expatriat- her simple and unspoiled.
Dimitrof's articles months after the birth of the maliciously attack the third Reich, Princess Elizabeth, the Duke and making such misrepresentations Duchess had to leave for a journey about and pouring such contempt round the world in H M 8. on the National-Socialists that the Renown, visiting the West Indies, circulation of the articles in Ger- South Sea Islands, New many has been atopped. Trans- Englishmen may be settled, Eng- Zealand and Austrails. Wherever ocean" Kuo Min.
land is still "home" to them, and house is part of their birthright. a visit from members of the royal
the
Six
The Duke and Duchess went out
thanks of the Madras Govern
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break of the Second Afghan War gathering to watch, policemen ment. Early in 1879, on the out- he applied to return to his Bap faded into the past, with its in his address, "that we are granted; and he was placed in long retreat, of a fight continued experience war again. But if pers and Miners. The request was memories of terrible anxiety, of a among those who least desire to command of a field company al when all seemed lost.
this country were attacked "or lotted to the Khyber Force under "On the 21st I was with the menaced the words 'For King and General Ross. There in the winter 66th Division at Hargicourt," said Country' would still mean some- Berlin, April 12..
of 1879-80 Dorward took part in Private C. A. Baker, 18th Hussars thing to us.” The Pravda, the leading organ
the lesser but strenuous opera-Bixteen years ago to-day?
"Dismiss." The little company of the Russian Communist Party, Kama District.
tions near Kam Dakka and in the Lying in a German hospital at Le slowly melted into the surround- In 1881 he was Cateau with a machine-gun bursting crowd. Sparkling medals here Germany.
drifted down the Mall,)-
to make friends, and they made in Moscow, has been banned in promoted captain. Four years through my leg The taxis and there signalled mutely of
the
It is believed that this step was taken owing to the anti-German articles written by Dimitron, the Bulgarian Communist, who was acquitted at the Reichstag Fire Trial-Reuter
camp. This camp was his own idea he visits it as an ordinary camper, entering into all the fun;
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"Cest beau d'etre prince, mais c'est dur," said Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the royal princes of Britain would doubtless agree. Yet their work is totally unlike that of princes in earlier days, who lived apart from the daily life of man- kind. King George y and Queen
them everywhere, despite Mary, keenly alive to the genuine
tremendous toll of constant cere-
later he again went on active
those other days... !" needs of their people, look on
monies. "I have come all the.
Service in Burma, and for nearly
CHANGES IN INDIA. Through the Mist" their sons as a link between the way from Hobart to see you, Sir,"
a year he held command both of
Lieutenant-General Bir Torquhil throne and the nation, or rather, said a man to the Duke at a
the British R.E. and of the Indian For most of them the days im Matheson, KCB CMG, the the many nations of the British wayside station "in
Tasmania
Sappers and Miners who took part mediately after the 21st be senior of his rank in relation to Commonwealth. The Duke
“And I have come all the way.
In that campaign. He was men came a timeless blur. "I was promotion will leave, India on York has made it his special task from England to see you," replied.
tioned and awarded the D.S.O. in with a forward gun near Re- May 4 and be at home until Octo- 1888, and in the following year he migny" said Signaller FW ber. By the end of his leave he to care for the welfare of the His Royal Highness, and he worker and his children, and in meant it. In England the young
received a brevet majority. He Stevenson, 82nd Brig, RFA will have nine months left of his was promoted lieutenant-colonel Jerry came through the mist... this he has had the whole-heart- couple have countless duties to
tenure. in 1894, and three years later he they surrounded the battery be- Quetta.. ed cooperation of the Duchess, perform, and whenever possible
commanded the Royal Engineers hind us turned our gun round
GO.C.-in-Chief at who had also accompanied him in they perform them together. In and has certainly succeeded in in Jamaica for two years In fired with open sights arduous tours of the Empire, Both addition to representing the King bringing together workers and 1898 he was promoted brevet moved tem down got back ments are Brigadier G. A. Hare. Officers taking leave this sum Duke and Duchess had a long at
mer and vacating their appoint- important gatherings, the their future employers on a basis colonel, and this rank gras made somehow after they'd given us up CLE Director of Ordnance Fac- preparation for their life work, Duke has devoted himself to the of true friendship. Amid all their substantive in August 1899, when The Duke, after studying at home welfare of industrial workers, and interests and engagements the he was appointed Colonel on the for lost I think on the 25th tories: Colonel A. H. Burnett, with his brothers, worked his way to the provision of playing fields Duke and Duchess manage to keep Stan at Wel-hat-wel with the was helping to carry a wound- D.8.0 0.8.0.1, New Delhi; Colonel as a naval cadet, and saw active for their children. Himself & young-hearted and fresh. The command of the British troops ined man through a wood.
B. H. Brown, Superintendent of service with the feet, being men trained engineer, air plint and
summer visits to Glamis are their North China, while he became
Bergt. Maj. G. T. Arlett, D.CM. the Kirkes Ammunition Factory:: tioned in dispatches for his con-physicist, the Duke is thoroughly greatest Joy, for there they can responsible for the civil adminis 5th Oxford and Bucks Light In Lieutenant-Colonel W. St. J. Car duct at the Battle of Jutland, and at home in a workshor or factory, later took a course of study at
fantry was in the support line pendale. Embarkation Comman- and his visits are carried out
throw off the burden of royalty tration of the concession. and be their own natural selves. This was his opportunity, At near St. Quentin, “ but it be dant at Bombay, Colonel G. F. Cambridge University before go under ordinary working condi trig as a guest to Glamis Castle tions; he has driven trams and comes between the busy round of was in prospect, while unrest was front line was blotted outwe D. T. Cowan, MC: 0.8.0.2 at the And whenever the opportunity that time the South African War came the fighting line when the Mellor, Director of Farms: Major in 1922. Lady Elizabeth, too, had trains, and made parts of most London engagements, they are off simmering In China. At frat hung on until two am on the Indian Military Academy: Major had experience of the rigours of things in order that he may into the country or, to get a game early in 1900, when the Boxer and finished up days later H. B Milne M.C., medical dicer war, for the castle had been turn-thoroughly understand what of tennis. Tea time, whenever trouble began, the Royal Navy near Compiègne
Cat Army Headquarters; and Capt. "ed into a "voluntary hospital by others have to donaut,
possible, is kept as the children's forced the Takn forts, landed The Rev. Bidney L. Clarke, late A Senior, technical amcer to her parents, and, though too As is well known, he entertains hour, when father and mother and parties of seamen, and advanced Chaplain-in-Chief, RAF, young to be a nurse,
con- the Master-General of the Ord she had every year 200 working lads and eagerly thrown herself into the 200 schoolboys at a very popular peaceful time all to themselves.
two small daughters have a happy, towards Tientsin. But more troops ducted the simple service. They nance, and who will retire from
·were 'required; 80 Brigadier-sang, O God, our help in ages the Army on November. B.