NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE MAGISTRACY.
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Licensing Board will be held in the Council Chamber oh Wednesday, the 7th day of November, 1984, at 3.30 p.m., for the pur, ose of considering applica- ions for Publicans' icences, Hotel and Koopers Adjunct licences Restaurant Keepers' Adjunct · Lis Sconces for the year 1994-1995 under
the Liquors Ordinance, 1981.
Forms of application may be obtained at the Álagistracy.
All applications must be forwarded in duplicate to the Magistracy on or before Wednesday, the 12th day of September, 1934, and must be scemmpanied by a deposit of Six Dollara.
Applicants for licences or for transfer thereof, and persons object. ing to such applications, must appear in person.
W. M. THOMSON, Secretary to the Licensing Board 30th August, 1934.
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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE STANLEY, HONG KONG.
TEW School Year begins Sept. NE
11. Examination for New Students on Saturday, September 8, at 9 a.m.
For Prospectus, for Boarders and Day Boys, apply Messrs. Bunker, 20, Des Voeux Road Central, or to Th Warden.
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ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE,
12813
DIOCESAN BOYS SCHOOL. FOUNDED 1869.
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Headmaster-Rev. C. B. R. SARGENT, M.A.
starte
on
New School Year Monday, September 10th
on Saturday, New boys tests September 8th at 9.00 am.
Prospectuscs, entry forms, and all particulars may be obtained from the Headmaster.
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P. O. Box 33, Telephone 57777.
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BANK HOLIDAY.
[N Accordance with Government
Ordinance, The
EXCHANGE BANKS will be CLOSED for the TEANSACTION of PUBLIC BOST NESS on MONDAY, 3rd SEPTEM. BER, 1934 (The. First Week-Day. in September).
Hong Kong, alst August, 1834.
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BANK HOLIDAY. "E beg to notify our customers WE
that on MUNDAY, 3rd September, 1984, all departments will be closed, with the following exceptiona:
EXCHANGE RESTAURANT, BERAD DEPT., CORNER HOUSE AND KOWLOOK BRANCH will remain open as usual, Peak Store will remain open until
10 A.M.
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD."
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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MR. and MRS. W. E. HOLLANDS tender sincere thanks to their kind friends for the many expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement, also for floral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral.
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Editorial and Business Office: 11
Ice House Btreet. Tel. 30251 Night Editor. (Wanchai OBos)¤
Tel. 94511. London Office: 53, Fleet Street
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 3, 1934.)
PROTECTION FOR BRITISH SHIPPING
OBITUARY
Mr. Frank BriantTM
London, Sept. 1. The death has occurerd of Mr. Frank Briant, J.P., the National Liberal. Member of Parlament for North Lambeth, at the age of 69.
-Renter.
Mr. Briant, who served for 14 the Civil Service, had Years in bren a member of the Lambeth
Board et Guardians for 27 years, 13 years of which period he was Chairman"" He was Parliamentary Member for the division from 1918 to 1929 and was again returned in 1831.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1934.
RAID ON HEROIN
FACTORY
Equipment Worth Nearly $10,000
nve
owner of the
Shanghai, August 28. A heroin and "red pill" factory. in operation, was raided by Settle- ment police at noon yesterday in the
district, Yangtzepoo Chinese workers being arrested and the alleged premises, a Japanese, being de-. tained for questioning. A large quantity of narcotica in various stages of preparation was seized. as well as elaborate equipment. For 46 years he was the Hon,
The raid, in of the 'Alford
which Japanese Superintendent House Institute for men and lads. Consular Police participated, was During his long career of publicque of the most important of its kind conducted in Shanghai this service, he won 21 elections.
year. The factory, it was estimat- ed, had been operated for less than two weeks and, because of
LANTAU ISLAND its complete and up-to-date Instal-
MURDER
Aged Chinese In An Unnumbered Hut
Hau Wan-tai, an old Chinese male of 61 years of age was the victim of a dastardly outrage re- sulting in robbery and murder, his body with numerous wounds be- ing discovered in an unnumbered but at Chuk Ko-wa. Lantau Island
at 10.30 p.m. on Saturday.
The robber or robbers made on with $400 in cash, three gold fing- er rings and a quantity of cloth- ing.
The
lations, was potentially one of the most dangerous sources of nar- coties in the community. investment made in machinery and other equipment was held to be nearly 810,000.
When the raiders, led by officers from the Yulin Road. Police Station, closed in on the place shortly before, noon, they found that the front two-storey building was occupled by a Japanese wine- making plant Bituated in the rear of this structure and well shielded from prying the heroin rennery and red-pill factory, both one-storey buildings.
eyes was
The address is 117 Ningkuo Road, near Pingliang Road..
Full Capacity Not Reached Altogether, the factory consisted Up till late la night no fur of four units, designed to produce
ther details were available.
of the favour of a subsidy. The position had become critical for Great Britain is an island depend
world ing for her prosperity on trade and a successful mercapite One of the in- marine service. visible forms of exports by means of which she pays for her imports is the services rendered by her ships in carrying cargoes and passengers and in the past she carried one-third of the foreign cargoes of all the nations.
Two reasons have brought about the change. Firstly, sea-borne trade has fallen since 1929 by one- third, and is less than in 1913. Second, and far more important, the proportion of British shipping used in this trade has diminished because other governments have heavily subsidized their national marines, and the result is a glut of ships. It is acknowledged that every important country in the world to-day possesses more mer- chant vessels than before the war except Germany whose vessels were surrendered. and the United Kingdom.. which has provided no artificial stimulus.
herola and red pills with speed and efficiency. It is believed that, although nearly every department was operating, the plant' had not started turning out narcotics "at capacity. Some of the equipment had not been used.
"As the police entered the place. consternation was caused among the five operatives, who were all young men and who apparently had considered themselves safe from interference. They made no resistance, however, and were quickly taken to the Yulin Road Police Station and, put, behind bars.
Elaborate Machinery
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Be-
An inspection of the premises revealed comparatively small quantity of crystalline heroin on hand, perhaps two pounds. sides, eleven pounds of crude mor- phine was found, but no red pills. There was, however, a whole unit devoted to the making of pills, with driers and other equip- ment. It is thought the supply of pills had been recently exhausted
red
The following data will help give an idea of the actual capacity of the factory:
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PO LEUNG KOK
ACCIDENT
Inmate Seriously
Hurt In Fall"
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זי
An inmate of the Po Leung Kok had a parrow escape from death yesterday afternoon as a result of trying to effect an escape from the Institute via the roof.
Shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday' afternoon a shriek was heard in the compound of the Institute and an immediate search revealed In Liu, female aged 19, lying doubled up as a result of a fall from the roof....
She was removed to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital in an am- bulance and was later found to have sustained serious abrasions and a fractured thigh.
If Gossip We Must
How the heat does bring them out!
The luscious buds waiting to burgeon into womanhoodi The tough guys with hairy knees, or surrounded loosely by the white mess Jacket of impeccable res- pectability! In the heat they all seem to flourish exceedingly, Not so myself. It makes me, feel alittle weary; a little weak and womanly a little reluctant to af- ford my fellow creatures the ex- quisite luxury of my society.
In other words a tiring week, full of things that one must go to because they are so pleasant, balls, picnics and parties, especially picnics. The party I enjoyed most was sitting in the Kowloon Crie-" ket Club watching the Japanese
KESWICK POLO play tennis It is stale news that
INTERPORT
To-day's Trial At Causeway Bay
The date for the Keswick Cup Interport"Polo match between Shanghai and Hong Kong has now definitely been fixed for October 3. at Causeway Bay.
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which, unfortunately, had to be The Interport trial last Monday
abandoned owing to heavy shower, will probably be replayed this afternoon on the Polo ground, The Interport team will be select ed probably towards the end of
the month.
PIRATES AGAIN!
"Police Headquarters has issued a warning to the effect. that information has been received that a gang of Bias Bay pirates left Swatow recently with the object of proceding to Shanghai to pirate a ship leaving that port,
DOUBLES AND SINGLES
Miss Stammer's Success
Rye, Sept. 1. Miss Kathleen Stammers and Miss Freda James won the final of the tennis Doubles 6-3, 6-3 against Miss Elizabeth Ryan and Miss Andrus to-day.
Miss Stammers also captured the Singles title, beating Miss James co-5-43-6, 6-4.- Beuter.
There were two electric motors of one horsepower each. Five suction pumps. One large brass still with densing apparatus.
Three drying stages with 'about ten trays each
One-tenth of the existing ships ander the British flag are laid up in idleness, and nearly half of the officers and men are unemployed.
A large quantity of retorts, all- The once prosperous tramp ship- tering flasks, porcelain filters and ping companies have eaten up other distilling apparatus also their reserves, and are Dow near was found. The liquid resources the end of their tether." It is included bottles of acid, ether and
these circumstances, that various filtrates.
under
Rubber
,,gas
Mr. Runciman, the president of the masks, used by workers handling Board of Trade, has announced aether, were, found in profusion.
It is estimated that the com- departure from previous British
policy. He will grant a compara- bined floor space of the four units tively small subsidy of £2,000.00 was 1.350 square feet.
"AIRMAN BEATS HIS
OWN RECORD
for one year for vessels carrying tramp cargoes, and solely for defensive purposes, on -condition that shipowners formulate a scheme to insure that the assist- ance will be used to bring employ- ment only to British ships which are subjected to subsidized foreign competition. He also proposes & grant to encourage owners to scrap American airman, who participated old tonnage and replace it with a in the London to Melbourne air lesser amount of modern tonnage. race with Clyde Pangbourn, to-day
Colonel
New York, Sept. 1.
Roscoe Turner, the
SOVIET ATHLETES
The proposals do not go as far as broke his own west to east trans- the shipping industry had hoped. America flight record of 10 hours The British Government is ex-5 minutes by two minutes for the tremely unwilling to take any distance of 2,600 miles measures against foreign shipping Reuter, which might seem provocative. But it may take further steps if it is driven to do so. It still hopes. however, in spite of the failure of the International Shipping Con- ference and the World Economic After prolonged consideration Conference, that it will secure the British Government has decid co-operation among the nations. ed to take measures to protect If that end can be attained, it will British shipping against the at- be far the happiest outcome. Is ts tacks of foreign governments, but natural that every country should only unwillingly is it proposing to desire to possess its own ships; but enter into a competition of sub it is folly that each should adopt idies and it is no satisfaction to a policy which leads to the posses itself that the British shipping sion of half as many ships again Industry is now to be the recipient as the world can use.
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Moscow, Sept. 1.
NORDIC STATES, TO CONFER
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Oslo, Sept. 1. A conference of foreign ministers of the Nordic States comprising of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and. Finland will take place at Stock- holm on September 6 and 7 with a view to the attainment of closer
the K.C.C. is one of the best run clubs in the Colony and that evening it seemed better run than aver. I hope it will never fall a victim to the brutal soldiery!
BUT NO!
an ideal It has, in fact, been week for the Gossip writer. Much has happened; which being so, I take a perverse pleasure in not writing about any of it. Personal- ly I, and you too, "I' imagine, be- ing a sensible person), get rather tired of the perpetual catalogue of identical names and faces Be- sides it isn't fair on us women of our husbands.
BY STREWTHA⠀
His Excellency the Governor addressing the Scouts and Guides
at the "As Home" given recently at "Mountain Lodge"
we must cause in the minds of tourists who come to Hong Kong for a day or a week. One hears their reactions to the scenery, but seldom to the inhabitants,
I shall imagine then, that I am one of a party of globe-trotters seeing Hong Kong for the first time I am sitting in the Ballroom at Repulse Bay, eating an excellent dinner, and watching the dancers. What types! What types! A bag of nuts to the lady or gentleman who guesses them all correctly!
The first to catch the eye and how he fills it is a young man, His shapely Neither of us can possibly afford ruddy and rotund
curves melt gracefully into the enough frocks to satisfy the gimlet eye of the press, however gimlet-rhythm of the dance: his confi- ted it may be. We know each dential gaze and grasp envelop his
other too well,
ī
partner completely.
When she comes up for air, she
strong man" look in her lovely eyes.
"
Watching her, and, pretending not to, is a large, very very beauti- ful young man. He does not dance, but watches those that do with a look of cynical boredom..
At a table on my left sit two girls who have all the makings of & promising "Sister Act." I fear, however, they would have little success on the Vaudeville, stage; their repertoire seems very limit- ed. Tall, brunette, delightful, they stage their only turn ag a non- stop performance, It consists of a pretty, touching interest in one another that imagine must be infuriating to their battled escorts.
a sop to the latter in the form of However, they occasionally throw
a brilliant smile which means ab-
THROUGH WESTERN EXES.
is seen to be divinely blonde disolutely nothing. But it occurred to me, as I was inely dressed. She has a pro- sitting one night in the Repulsenounced a'r of femine helpless- a drooping "Oh you big Bay Hotel, how many speculations ness,
Tea Time for the "Guides" at Mountain Lodge.
ARCHDUKE ALBRACHT
VON HAPSBURG
Excitement Over News Of Impending Divorce
Budapest, Sept. 2 The country is excited at the news of the impending divorce of Archduke Albracht von Hapsburg on the application of his morgana- tic wife as the divorce would prob- ably remove the legal obstacles to Albracht's claim to succeed to the throne. Reuter,
SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE LEAGUE
economic co-operation among the [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Presa” (Copyright,)]
Nordic States.
Paris, Sept. 1.
The Norwegian Premier? "and Foreign Minister, Mowinckel, inter- As a result of M. Titulescu's con- viewed. said that the conference versations with M. Barthou, poll- had been called on the suggestion tical circles manifest considerable
of the Swedish foreign minister. optimism as regards Soviet Russia's Sandler, who advocated economic admittance to the League. It is Co-operation. Sandler had told believed possible to obtain the him that one needed a sound basis necessary two-thirds majority in order to perceive whether there existed the possibility for adopting practical measures. -Transocean Kuợ Min,
MISSING PRIVATES
ARRESTED
The two missing Privates from the East Lancashire Regiment: have been arrested at Ma Hong Village, in the Stanley District The Estonian Government have They were entered as missing instructed the Estonian Legation from Nanking Barracks, Sham here to refuse vise for the Soviet shulpo on Saturday morning Russian athletes who were to take result of having failed to appear part in the athletic contest in when called upon at 10 o'clock on Friday morning, as stated in a Esthonia
report on page Un
Transocean Kuo Min.
Transocean Kuo Min.
DAVIS CUP ‹TENNIS
Yugoslavia Eliminates Hungary
Budapest, Sept. 2. Yugoslavia won the Davis Cup tie against Hungary, winning three matches to nil, and enter next year's competition.
Pances and Schneger Yugos- lavia) beat Gabrowitz and Lichy 6-4, 6-4, 8-3- Heuter.
(Earlier results on page 2)
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Berlin, September 1-Ninety-one persons were said to have been drowned in Korea when a steamer with 200 souls on board sunk on the Valu River, according to ad- vices from Dairen.-Transocean.
Kuo Min.
drawn from the Forty boys, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and the various shipping firms in the Colony, have been enrolled by the Royal Naval Volunteer Force as They will muster on seamen H.MS. Cornflower, the Volunteer training" ship, to-morrow evening at 57 p.m.
Sitting with them, in a contin- ual forth and bubble af amuse- ment-is a bouncing, beaming little man to whom I take an instant- liking. He seems to possess every human virtue" and very Kttle hair
Clood Lord! What's this coming. through the doorway? Another sister acti: This time blonde, en- thusiastic, and knockabout come- dy. They look very outdoor.
I must stop. The boat sails at dawn. All the same, I can't help feeling waves of curiosity.
Who
was the red-faced young man near the door who laughed at h's own jokes and smiled: patient- ly at other people Who was the Jolly middle-aged man with the shoulders (but alas no longer, the stomach) of an athlete?
The car is at the door. I must. leave all these problems for you to solve and say Goodnight and Goodbye to Hong Kong.
NEWS SUMMARY
Saturday's training gallops at Happy Valley are given in figures Page 10
on
The Indian R. C. are now secure at the head of the second division of League Lawn Bowls. Results of Baturday's games appear on