NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
OTICE is hereby given that the ANNUAL” ORDINARY GENERAL, MEETING of Share- holders will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on MONDAY, the 11th JUNE, 1994, at 11.30 a m.. For the purpose of receiv ing the Report of the Directors with a Statement of together
Acounts for the year ended 30th April, 1934.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 1st day of JUNE, to MONDAY, the 11th day of JUNE, -1984, both daya inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hong Kong, 34th May, 1984.
"[2581
THE MACAO JOCKEY CLUB.
PORMS for
ROGRAMMES and ENTRY THE THIRD
EXPA RACE MEETING, to be beli at Macao on Sunday, 10 June, 1934. may be obtained from Mess. Benjamin & Pots, The Sports Clol and The Hong Kong Jockey Club Bteblos...
Entries CLOSE at NOON on Thurs day, 31st Mar, 1934, at the Sertary s Odce, co Masara. Benjamin Potts, now Sock Exchange Building, 4th Moor
(2583
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
SIXTH EXTRA
TRAGE MEETING will be held
Weather Permitting). at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 2ND JUNE, 1934, commencing st 8.00 p.m., The First Bell will bo Rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE Members are notifed that they and their Ladies must wear thair Badges prominently displayed throughput & e Mecting.
No Une without a Badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the! Members Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentleman and $3.00 for Ladies (Both including Fax) are obtain. able through the SECRETARY apon the personal application of
Member,
such amber to be responsible for ali visitors in troduced by him, and for Payment of All Chite, &c.
The Fecretary's Office, Brd Floor, Gloucester Building (Tel. 27794), wil close at 12 o'clock Noon.
to Members Badges admitting Enclosure will NOT be on sale' si the Race Course.
A
On No "Pretext will Children be
permitted in other Enclosure during
the Meeting.
Tillins are obtainable at the Clau House provided they are ordered from the No. Boy in advance. Telephone 21920.
PURLIC ENCLOSURE. The Prics of dmienica to the Public Enclosure is 32.00 lading Tax, for all Persons, including Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Bailors in uniform are admitted Half Price
HONG KONG DAILY
While Label
WAT SCOTER WHER
GREAT AG
Dewar&Sous SUPERUS
Good Spirits
await Good Company
DEWAR'S
"White Label
A.
and
copy.
WHISKY
BOLE AGENTS
S. WATSON & CO., L'ID.
DEATH
Manila
papers
EST. 1841,
forces. Then, even if parity' should be assured, it would be likely to bo on the basis of high and provoca tive expenditure..
of
ROCHA-On May 28, 1934, at his residence, 59A, Wong Nel Chong Road. Autonio Maria Barros
Since Britain's Island position. Rocha, aged 32 years. Funeral docs, not make her immune from will pass the Monument to-day air attack, it is not surprising (Tuesday) at 5.30 p.m. Deeply that considerable sections Regretted Macao. Shanghai opinion in that country should
please demand an
increase of her air strength. In spite of her scatter- ed imperial responsibilities, her Air Force is weaker than that of France or Russia, or Italy, or the United States, or Japan. As lots ago as 1923 the Committee of Im perial Defence laid it down that £ity-two squadrons were necessary for British security: but she has never reached this standard. and to-day has only förty-two squadrons.
41
BIRTH
YATES-At the Country Hospital,
Shanghai, on May 23, 1934. to Frances, wife of Gordon Yates.
a son.
Editorial and Business Office: li
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251
Night Editor (Wäuchai Office) †
Tel. 24511.
Much pressure has been brought on the ministry to increase ar
Bookmakers, Tie Tac Men, eta London Office: 53, Fleet Street, strength at least up to the former
will not be permitted to operate with
in the Precincts of Tax HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB during the itace Meeting.
By Order
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1934, [2680
THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
NOTICE.
THE MAY HALF YEARLY
TGENERAL MEETING
of
V TING MEMBERS will be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, on Thursday, 31st May, 1934, at 5.83
pm.
+J
B.C. &
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 28, 1934.
BRITAIN REASSESSES
DISARMAMENT
If further evidence were needed.
מפג
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1934.
PRESS,
OBITUARY
NEW
Mr. A. M. B. Roeha
We regret to record the death which took place at his residence, 59A, Wong Nel Chong Road yester. day of Mr. Antonio Maria Barros Rocha.
Deceased, who was $2 years old, was an employee of the Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., for about ten years. until his death, which oc curred quite suddenly.
As a member of the Fortuguese Company of the HK.V.D.C., the late Mr. Rocha rendered invalus- ble service. He was a crack shot
ELECTRIC STATION
Machinery From Germany
(From Our Special Correspondent).
Canton, May 28
A review of the undertakings and achievements of the Canton City Government was made this morning by Mayor Liu Chi Wen at the weekly memorial service at the auditorium of the South-west
Political Council.
of the unit and held the cham..
Covering a period of municipal plonship for Inst year's shootin activities since March 1, Mayor Lu This year he won the musketrygaid that the most important work shooting event. "
power station at Bai Chuen near
|
MARRIAGES
NEWS SUMMARY
Cumberbatch- Congdon
M
Lazaraga, was sentenced" to three years' hard labour yesterday..
Page 7. Messrs. Wallace Harper and Company's annual meeting is re-. ported on Page 6.
A Chinese boat was sold by pub- lie auction yesterday and fetched Page: 7. „Round the Court; å dally feature giving a resume of all the cases taken in the Local Courts will be found on bage 6.
(Special Air Mail Service.) ..
London, May 12. The marriage took place at $130.000. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, yester- day afternoon of Lieutenant- Commander Henry Carlton Cum- berbatch. ́R.N., HMS. Medway, China, youngest son of the late Mr. H. A. Cumberbatch (Consul- General) and of the late Mrs Cumberbatch, and Miss Pauline Ellen Laing Congdon, only daugh-
Echoes of 1860, taken from our “ tles, appear on page 6.
To-day's wireless programme from Hongkong, Daventry
and " Berlin, are given on page 4.
The Diary of Local Events will be found on page 4.
4
ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Congdon, of North-court House. Reading. The Rev. E. C. Symes and Canon Mr. A. Morris, Commissioner of Edwin Brook-Jackson conducted | the local branch of St. John Am-
Deceased is survived by his wife is the building of a new electric the service, and his father. Mr. A. J. C. da Rocha, to whom and other relatives much sympathsf will be extended. The funeral takes place to-day passing the Monument at 3.30 p.m.
the water works occupying an area of 30 mou (Chinese, acre). The machinery, which was ordered from Germany is of 30,000 kilo- watts and costs $2,340,000 Hong- kong-currency, be said, and it will be able to supply electricity to the
Mr. Joe L. Knopp city within a year.
The funeral of Mr. Joe L. Knopp,
The present electric plant un the Bund, according to the Mayor, is just enough for present pur- who died of heart failure on Sun pases, but with the increasing num- day morning, took place yesterday ber of factories requiring electric at the Roman Catholic cemetery power, the present supply will not Amongst those who attended" the į be sufficient for future needs. funeral were Mr. A. Mylo, Mr. B. A.
"Consumption of water is also Semenick. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hincreasing." Mayor Liu went on Corver. Mr. C. L Shank and Mr.This is due to the fact that all Byner.
bulance Brigade, was the guest of honour at a tea party given by. members of the Corps at Gloucester Building yesterday.
• Page 6. The motor supplement will hel found on page 2.
לייק
The bride, who was given away by her father, wore B gown of white lace with a scalloped oval train, which fell from below the knees. Her long white tulle vell was held in place by a. Tudor Local territs and lawn bowls re- headdress of lace, and she carried
sults appear on Page 10. a sheaf of white iris and roses and Two Italian drivers were killed wore a bracelet of white heather. and, two British drivers were in- She was attended by five brides-jured in the motor race in Italy. maids---Miss Nancy Cumberbatch
Page 9.
:
(sister of the bridegroom), Miss A cable report of a daring at- Isabel Catto. Miss Jean Murray, tack on two Police Constables at Miss Rachel Henderson, and Miss Bussex Downs also appears o12
Audrey Gillespie. They wore Page 9.
dresses of turquoise lace with short trains and turquoise-blue straw hats with small veils to match. They carried bouquets of the new houses are equipped with | coral-coloured carnations and tub bath and flush toilet. Instead | Ulles-of-the-valley. Lieutenant E. of being charged with a lump sum monthly for the Increasing supply, all households are to be installed with water metres.
Rev. Fr. Rossi officiated.. Floral tributes were sent by the following:-Vincent and Vesta, son and daughter, Mr A Mylo, Mr, 8. A. Semenick, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Corver, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.. Ozoriö, "The source of supply to the and Helene Ozorio, Messrs. Col-Tungshan water works is not ade- bourn Little, Leigh and Orange, quate for present purposes. To ob- Netherland Harbour Works Co.. tain a further supply of water a Eastern Mercantile & Construction well 300 fet deep is being dug. At Co., Ltd., MacDonald and Gorman the same time efforts are being Ltd. and Raymond Pile Driving made to purify the water.". Co.
John Frederick Hayley Bell
Construction of the Inner Har bour at Chow Tou Tsiu, Hotiam suburb, is seventy per cent. com- plete. When it is quite completed, the Inner Harbour will provide docking and. warehouse facilities for all big steamers, as the present wharves on the West Bund are an obstruction and danger to river navigation Mr. Liu added."
Home papers' bring dews of the death, in the Royal Naval Hospital. Plymouth, of John Frederick Hay, ley Bell, a cadet. In his second term in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. John Hayley Bell was COLOMBO
born in Shanghalip February, 1920, and was therefore only four- teen years old. He was educated
SCARE
R. Collins, RN, was best man. and, like the bridegroom, wore full-dress uniformi.
A reception was held in the Empress Rooms, Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington.
Among those present at the church were:-
Miss Rosemary. Balfour, Mr. and Mrs. Somerset Playne, Lieutenant Venables, Captain and Mrs. Mc- Cullough, Mr. W. E C. Daniel, Miss S. Webb, Miss E, Harding, Mr. and Mrs. John Best, Mr. and Mrs. John Humphrey. Captain, and Mrs. Black, Mr. E. P. Burke, Mr. A L Carless, Captain and Mrs." Bruce Ramsay, Colonel and Mrs. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Davy, Miss Raphael, Lieutenant-Com- Mrs. T. E. Congdon, Mr. R/ C. mander and Mrs. Highamn, Lieu- Cumberbatch, Mr. and Mrs. V. C.
tenant-Commander- Barry, Mrs. Allen, Mr. C. E. Allen, Mr. and Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mrs. C. W. Allen, Mr and Mrs. Andrew, Mrs. Adle, the Misses Ferguson, Sir William and Lady
Adle, Mr. and Mrs G. E. Moure, and McKercher, Sir Alexander
Miss Moore, Mr. Geofrey T. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Reid, Mr. and Lady Murray, Miss Murray," the Hon. Maurice Baring, Sir Thomas Mrs. J. E. Lawie, Mr. and Mrs. A. and Lady Catto, Mr. Jock Catto, R. Nevill," Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ward, Sir Thomas and Lady Neave, the Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Kingsley, Mrs. Misses. Neave, Mrs. E. R.. Town- E T Stuart, Mrs. E. J. Miller, Mrs. send, Miss Townsend...Commander C. R Stanley, Miss Doris Jenks, and Mrs. Voelcker, Mr. R. V. Yates, Lleutenant-Comdr. W. E. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Witham, Miss Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Roff, Mrs. H Witham, Mrs. Borrett, Mrs. Mur-Skaife. doch, Mra. A. C. Fuller, Mr. and
MMF K. Brooke, Mr. and Mrs.
H. A Gardner. Miss Whitehouse, Mrs. J. EL Stevenson; Mrs. P. W.
Lieutenant-Comdr. and Mrs. Bingeman, Mrs. Green, Col. and Mrs. Hickley, Master Dennis Hickley, Master Michael Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver. Miss P. Far
at preparatory schools at Rugby Again Proves To Be Morris, Mrs. H. E. Howe, Mrs. Chanso, Mr. and Mrs. C. F
1
Following
and Wellington and passed Into Dartmouth, last year. on measles, with which almost the entire college went down last term, he developed dangerous complica- tions and was operated upon seve- ral times. finally succumbing to pneumonia on April 17.
Unfounded
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, May 12. Newmarket was full of rumours on Saturday concerning the vari ous Derby candidates.
-
Graves Chamney. Mrs. John Row land Miss Madeley. Miss Fuller, Mrs. E. Baggallay. Mra le Bally. Mr. A. H. Abbott. Mr. and Mrs, G. H. Keeton, Major and Mrs. Bat-bert Kingham, Miss Kingham, Mr. tine. Lieutenant-Commander 80- cock. Miss Haggle.
and Mrs. EL. P.... Glenie, Mi Brown, Miss Brown, Colonel Man- ders, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Robinson Colonel L A. drimston, Mrs. Her
and Mrs, T. Cope, Miss Diana Mann, Mr. and Mrs. C. Simkins.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The P. & Oliner Kaisar-I-Hind is due" here from Singapore with the English mails at 10 am. On Wednesday...
He was given full/Naval honours. The band of the Royal Marines, The fact that the favourite, Devonport Division, played the Colombo, was not at exercise with' figure, which would still leave cortege to the Naval Cemetery in the rest of Captain Hogg's tear Britain numerically weaker than the Western Hills, Pijmouth. A gave rise to the scare that all was Italy. But the Government had large number of officers, the Com- not well with him Inquiry re- made up its mind. There is to be mander-in-Chief being represented. vealed, however, that the reason one additional dying boat squad- and sixty bluejackets followed the for his absence was that he was in
for overseas service, the gun-carriage. and three volleys | physic. equivalent of one more squadron and the Last Post sounded over Other rumours concerned Urald for the Fleet Air Arm, and only perhaps as young a brother officer war, who is regarded as the chief two
The many friends of Mr. and new squadrons instead of as was ever laid to rest by the danger to Colombo in the Derby, Mrs. A. W. Ingram will learn with eight demanded for home defence Royal Navy.
and Valerius. There is nothing regret that their youngest daugh- ing after 11, the boy was struck by The Government announces that it hopes to achieve air parity between the principal powers by reduction to the British level rather than by expansion.
While disarmament, then, is still under discussion, the British Government is curtailing expansion.
Lo make it clear that it could not
"Count Caserta
wrong with either of them, hów- ever,
Unidwar was found to be a little
sore after his race in the Two [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Thousand Guiness, but he was out
Free" (Copyright)]
Parts, May 27. of Britain's sincerity in seeking to a minimum, though it is obliged
Count Caserta, head of the Nea- ALL MEMBERS are cordially disarmament. It is to be found in invited to attend and participate in her air programme for the coming always accept a position of con pailtan branch of the house of tinuing inferiority in the air. But Bourbon, has died in Cannes aged any discussion which may ensue. year. Taking the view that an
has afforded unmistakable | 83.. It By Order of the Stewards, Gunce of example is better than a evidence of its sincerity by being After the Kingdom of Naples CB. BROWN, pound of precept, the Government willing to hold its hand for the and two Sicilies: Had been, meor
has resisted the demands for Secretary.
present while. negotiations are porated into the Kingdom of Italy large increases in the modest Air
proceeding. This pacific attitude, in 1860, Count Caserta and his. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1984, [2666 | Force." while continuing the
it ought to be remembered, has family settled down In the South negotiations for parity in arme.
been that of Great Britain ever of France. The late Count who ment. She intends to refrain from since the conclusion of the war, bore the title of King of Jerusalem building up to European afandards when she immediately began the was a direct descendant of Louts as long as there is hope that demobilization of her conscript XIV, through the latter's grand- Europe will scale down its stanarmy and has since been content son, Philip of Spain.
with a regular army, even smaller Ten children survive him "of The moment is a critical one. than that which she had in 1914 whom nine were present at his There is no sign that France w She has also reduced her naval | bedside when he died-Transocean reduce her strength unless her forces, and welcomed the coopera- Kuo Ming.
THE BAUB AUSTRALIAN · · GOLD MINING CO., LTD. (INCUR GRATED IN QUEENSLAND).
NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF INTERIM DIVIDEND.
18th
dards to hers.
tion of the United States in coming
to an agreement for the limitation
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Press" (Copyright.)]
NOTICE is hereby gives thetan demands for security are satisfed, per share on account of the financial Italy will not reduce until all re- year ending 31st March, 1935, has been duce; and Germany now. enter of navies. Moreover, in spite of declared by the Directors of the the field with demands, that during some noisy sections of the Press Compery in Brisbanr, payable to the proposed two years period for there is ample evidence that public Bhareholders, on
on the Registers at investigating the alternatives of opinion is overwhelmingly in [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Brisbane and Singapore on Friday abolition of aircraft or parity she favour of a policy of disarmament
Jone 1034. Notics is also bereby given that the should equip herself with fighting to the lowest possible point com- Singapore Transfer-Registers will be machines. Thus, while the whole patible with the huge armaments
Nuremberg, May 27. closed from Baturday, 8th June, to question of offensive armaments of the European continent For The nineteenth game of the Friday, 15th Jane, 1984 (both days big guns, tanks, air eq ipment is the present, it is in the air that chess world championship match Inclusive, for the preparation of
under review there is an immediate Britain's defences are conspicuous ended in a draw on Sunday after- Dividend Warranta, p
danger that to the formidable Air ly weakest, in spite of the high loon, and owing to pressure of Forces of the heavily armed powefficiency of the small existing time, the players commenced their ers will soon be added a powerful Force. In choosing this critical twentieth game immediately German Air Force, and that the moment to resist demands for ex- whole of Europe will find itself pansion, she has made the best with 216 committed to the maintenance practical contribution to the cause
By Order of the Board,
- DERRICK & CO.,
Chartered Accountants,
Local Secretaries.
pore 18th May, 1984. [357% of enormous potential attacking for disarmament.
HONGKONG Banx Chambers,
the
Car
now leading
hit cred!
Swing
ansocean Kuo, Minh
on the Heath on Baturday," and was given healthy exercise in com pany with Witch Doctor. II.
Although Valerius was not out with R. Day's team, he was exer-- rised in" the home paddocks,
DERBY CALL OVER
Colombo Still Favourite
London, May 28, The following is to-day's call over on the Derby to be run on Wane 6:
Colombo, 7-4;
Umidwar 10-1,t, and o.
Easton 21-2 a 100-9 t. Windsor Lad 100-9 o. 12-1 Lozingaro 18-1 o. 20-1 t Admiral Drake (25-1, Tiberiua 28-1. and o Alshah 28-1 o. 33-1 t Valerius 33-10, 40-1 Medieval Knight 33-1 o. Badruddin 18-1 0740-1 t Bondsman 40-1 t. and o Achtenan 40-1 0. 45-1 t.
Patriot King 55-1.
Berestof 66-1
Rathmore: 100-1 t, and o.
A Chinese youth was fatally Injured on Sunday as a result of being knocked down by a train, The victim. Yuen Chi Yick, was a cattle-boy at Lo Wu village. A water-buffalo is supposed to have wandered on the lines and in go
an up-train passing the locality at 4.20 p.m.
ter, Helen, has been admitted to hospital suffering from meningitis,
E.MS. Calcutta, with reliefs A Shanghai Chinese dally reports from the Yangtaze on board, is due that residents in Tainan watched here this morning at 8 am. She in consternation the procession of will sail for Bingapore and the several ofcials in the streets of United Kingdom on June 1
that city on Tuesday. In accord- ance with an order by the Gover Bnr of Shantung, these officials. More than 300 men and mine
says the paper, were paraded. women have registered with the
the streets in chains through committee in preparation for a
because of their alleged dis- bicycle race competition which is honesty. They were officials of being promoted in Nanking by Mr. the stamp tax bureau and their Liu Sen, Chairman of the National punishment in this fashion is to Government.
Gen Ho Yao Tau, in an inter-
continue for one month in order to impress upon the people the
view with Press representatives penalties of being dishonest. in Nanking, denied the report that he would be appointed Chairman of the Cheklang Provincial Goy ernment in succession to Gen. Lu Ti Ping.
Feltatho is considered by many to be the premier summer resort in North China and since its first summer cottage was built 41 years ago. nearly every season has seen Areward of 2500 has been an increase in the number of holt- offered by the police authorities day seekers who go there. The for Information leading to the discovery of. Peltalho is credited.. arrest and conviction of the man to Mr. C. W. Kinder who, when or men who shot Special Police surveying for the Feking Mukden Guard, Mohamed Din, through the Railway, first came across the hoad with his own revolver, at long stretch of shore. Others who were first to realize the beauty and Bowen Road last week.
value of such a resort to North of the The French cruiser Primauquet. China were missiona fagship of the French Fleet in the American and English, Methodist in the Far East, is due here this morning Missions who were tray fying the flag of Rear Admiral vicinity. For the leat Richard who took over the duties rany firms have oper of O-in-C of the French Fleet in branches at Feltalho the Far East about a month ago algnify their Inter following the sudden death of so this year. Mo Vice-Admiral Descottes Fenoni and places of business, uter. whilst on the way to Shanghai.. Rocky Point: