NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG
KONG
JOCKEY CLUB.
THE
T NINTH
EXTRA
RACE MEETING will be held (weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 20rs OCTOBER, 1994, commending at
2.00 p.m..
The First Bell will be Rung at
1.30 p.m..
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Members are notified the they and their Ladies must wear the Bad- ges prominently displayed through- out 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 $5.00 for Gentlemen and $8.00 for Ladies (Both including Tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon the personal application of a Member, such Mam- ber to be responsible for all visitort introduced by him, and for Paymens of all Obits, &c.
The Secretary's Office, 3rd Floor Gloucester Building, (Tel. 27794), will close at 12 o'clock Noon.
Badges admitting to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Coures.
On No. Pretext will Children be permitted in either Enclosure during the Meeting.
Tifica are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. 1 Boy in advance, Telephone 21920.
The
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
of Admission to the
SOCKS
Diving right into this subject, never was a fuller. range or better value in Socks shown.
Art Silk and Wool and "Jaeger" Wool are included at the remarkable price of
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934.
Two Remarkable.
Values in Men's
Socks & Golf Hose.
GOLF HOSE ·
These like the Socks are made from selected yarns in plain as well as a large assortment of
designs.
smart
"Jaeger"-plain Grey and Khaki
$2.75
DOLPHIN ON TEST
Canton Service
Resumption
[Special to the "Hong Kour Daily „Press" (Copyright.)]
Shanghai, Oct. 14. One of the two newly-arrived Dolphins after trial flights throug- out the week carried out a text tight to Nanking yesterday mor- ning, the journey taking 65 min-. utes. Mr. Chu Chia Hua boarded the plane on the return trip and was greatly impressed by its per- formance.
In the afternoon newspaper men and foreign guests were given rides, flights being made for ye and a quarter hours, encircling the town.
It is officially announced that..
4 Gossip We Must
H. “NIGHTBED"
Last Tuesday night I went to to stay out later, especially as the the Peninsula Hotel which open- next day was a holiday, ed its winter season in a rather THE DOUBLE TENTH novel way. For the first time the public were given an idea what
After he had made. things their new cocktail-bar was like. Jupiter Pluvius decided to keep miserable for 13' on Saturday,
I was very agreer bly surprised to And the old bar. (which had given such faithful service) transform- ed into a really modern one, some- thing like the ones we see some. of the latest Home side pictures, complete with models of roosters in plaster work.
La
Considering that it was the
away
on Wednesday with the
result that we saw some pretty women, and charming dresses at the Race Course on ' the second
day of the Eighth Extra Race Meeting. "As it was a holiday I managed to get down there bright and early and one of the art persons I ran across was Mrs. T.
coming to her outat. The popular
Q. barrister, Mr. H.
Sheldon, looked very well "after a holiday, he was also one of the Empresa passengers.
There were so many liners in. port on Friday that during the evening, it was dificult to get a table on the first floor of the Hong Kong Hotel. It sesined, as though a tourist boat' was in port. And here I might, mention that when we do get any people here,. the Hong Kong Hotel is the first place they make for, but alas! we get back to the old story of having to leave at midnight Do you know, the presence of so many new faces in addition to the local crowd had an effect on the band even in that they played with more pep and vim? Mrs.
And there is 'no doubt that the band is excel-
first time they had a dance in thes. Whyte-Smith in a white and Peninsula this season, I was dis- appointed not to see more pretty the shops
the National China Aviation Com-dresses, especially as per pair
FANCY DESIGNS
$1.45
per pair
* $3.75
per pair
We allow 10% Discount for Cash
All Sizes from 9 to 12"
Pablo Preto un festo inceding Wm. POWELL, Ltd.
Tar, for all Persons,
Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers And Bailors in uniform are
admitted Half Price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac Men, etc.,
will not be permitted to operate with-
in the Precincts of The Hong Kong JOCKET CLUB during the Race
Meeting.
By Order,"
Q. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 15th October, 1934.
NOTICE.
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I, the undersigned, Julio A. E. da
- Silva of Macao will not be responsible for.iny debts contracted by my son Jose Butalha da Silva. (Zinlio).
JULIO A. E. DA SILVA, “
NOTICE
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the peace. It must not be assumed that only drill and musketery in- structions are held in the School. An essential part of the training as a knowledge of the rules and re- gulations governing the duides of apoliceman, and no matter how efficient a recruit may be as re- gards drill or musketry work, or even Arst ald, he not allowed
pany's round trip from" Shanghai on Friday and from Canton on Sunday will be resumed on No- vember 2, changing to two round trips weekly from December, the planes leaving Shanghai on Tues- days and Fridaya and from Canton on Thursdays and Sundays.
Air mails only wil be carried till further notice
are *30 advanced now in all that they Carry and Ril the dresses are the latest styles from London and New York. I would thought that the Hong have Kong ladies would take advantage of the many opportunities to get something really chic.
*
I saw Mrs. Stott (nee Patsy Hynes) in apple green. The dress The General Manager of the was beaded right round the neck, Corporation expressed regret at Anished off low at the back, and the delay in the passenger service she looked so sweet. Mr. A. M. and "said that it was necessary to Parker of the Canadian Pacific ensure the personal safety of pas had a party who were ever, so sengers. Ever since the suspen- | inerry. One of his guests was alon of the Shanghai-Canton air Mrs. Le Roy Newbert of Beverley service, the radio stations on the Hills, Hollywood, who I believe is line have been keeping up detalled making a trip round the world. daily reports of air conditions in
She was dressed in a cloth of order to perfect the system of in- gold with sable sleeves, and oh, formation for safe service after so charming, too. With her was resumption. The new radio sta- Ms. Betty Elder who had on a tion installed on Blangshan Islands dress of silver grey georgette with in Hangchow Bay has greatly fadi- ostrich feather sleeves and plum litated the weather service.
velvet shoes. I was curious to know who the charming lady in black chiffon velvet trimmed with silver tissue was. She had for her escort a really tail man Myra and Marta, were there and as usual were first-class. They contributed several items but I thought the most popular of their turas was the modernistic. Bolero which was very well received. The dance came to an end at 1 am, despite all the talk I have heard about the extension of hours. It was so enjoyable there that we thight have been allowed
The original accommodation in the new plane for eight passen- gers will be changed for alx pas sengers for better comfort.- China United Press.
KIANGSI LOAN
o go out "on his own" unth he "Banks to Advance
has passed his examination in Police Regulations and Local
stattetentie | Ordinances.
HONG KONG, OCTOBER 15, 1934.
THE POLICE FORCE
The impending departure of the Inspector General of Police, the Hon. Mr. E. D. G. Wolfe, is a fitting occasion to pay tribute to the Police Force, thanks to whose tire- less efforts we, irr Hong Korig, have always enjoyed comparative peace and calm. The retiring official first arrived in the Colony as far ago as 1901 but though he has Alled many a position in the Civi
Very often when we have a major crime in the Colony and reports are issued to the effect that so far nu detalls are avail-
$1,800,000
[Special to the. “Hong Kong Daily
Press (Copyright).3
Chingklang, Oct. 14. Negotiations have been conclud-
able but the Police are making ed by the Klangsi Government Investigations," the accusation is
with four banks for ✡ Loan of made that there is too much slack-$1,800,000 to regulate the food sup
ness in the Force. That is an ex-
tremely unfair charge, for it has been known that the Police have arrested people in connection with a breach of the peace as long as one year after the crime was com- caltted. That is one of the in- stances that the Police never relax in their efforts to bring to book any undesirable character.
There is one department in the
"
ply and institute a granary sys- tem in the provincė.
The Bank of Communications and the Shanghai Commercial Savings Bank wij advance $600,000, the Kiangsu Bank $240,000 and the Kiangsu Farmer', Bank $380,600.
The loan will be secured on food- stuffs purchased and interest of 10 per cent. will be completely re- deemed in one year.
In order that the project may
APPLICATION has been made Service, the greater part of his Police Force that can, we feel,
career has been connected with the lend more co-operation to the be immediately launched Police Force so that there can be public. We refer to the Tranc Klangsu Provincial
to the Company to issue, a duplicate Share Certificate in respect of 60 shares Nos. 347471/847520
the original certificate for the said when one has to do so with the shares shall be deemed CANOELL added handicap of getung together ED and of NO EFFECT and that the Co., will then proceed to deal with such application.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.; LTD Agents. Hong Kong, 11th October, 1984.
registered in the name of HU Tezno denying that it is principally Department. Let it not be sup- FAT, the original of which has been due to his efforts that the Force posed that we are going out of our has attained the high degree of way to find fault, but it does seera declared lost.
efficiency it enjoys to-day, -- Notice is hereby given that if
a pity that with the increase in Training a body of men at the
motor traffic and the resultant within 14 days hereof no claim or representation is made to the Cobest of times is no sinecure but
safety first campaigns," those in charge of the Trafie Department have not deemed it desirable to a Force comprised of British, Issue, at regular intervals, statis- Indians, Chinese (Northern and
tick of motor accidents. This is Southern) and more latterly done in all the big cities in Europe Russians, then the task is and America and while some may rendered all the more "(i+1- hold the opinion that they bäve cult. Mr. Wolfe, however, sur nothing whatever to do with Safety mounted this drawback, and, im-First Campaigns, we feel that good pressing upon his men that esprit might result if the public were de corps is the sine qua non of aware of the deaths claimed by an efficient force, he succeeded in motor accidents every year. not only keeping crime at a We take this opportunity of bid- minimum in the Colony, but heding the retiring Inspector General has also earned for the Force the farewell and a happy retirement. name of the most efficient body of Mr. Wolfe has guided the destinies Its kind in the East. Indeed some of the Police Force for so long that author:ties have even zone so far. It would be difficult to think of as to say that the Hong Kong the Force without his name com Police can stand comparison with ing to mind. He has, however, the beat in the world, and what earned his retirement and re better conument can be paid to luctant though we may be to lose the work that Mr. Wolfe has put him, we are sure that nobody will grudge him the rest to which he
Cuticura SOAP
MEDICINAL
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Keep your sealpin good condition by shampooing regularly with a liquid soap made by disolving sharings of Cutleura Soup in a little hot water. Rinse thon oughly. If there is any daudend or irritation, the sammspon should be preceded by an application of Cutlemen Giupment, Semple ach Soap, Ointment and Talehim on
in?
In the course of his speech at is entitled. We wish him and his the Police Training School last family many happy years of retire- week, when he was the guest of ment in the Old Country. honour at a farewell party, Mr.
Wolte mentioned that the Train-
ing School was first started by Bar,
the
Clovernment will appropriate $360,000, at ance for the purchase.of.cereals from districts in Northern Klangsy and to relieve the drought-stricken dis- tricts in the southern part of the province.-
China United Press.
TYPHOON WARNING
The following telegram was received by the American Con- sulate from Manila yesterday, timed 3.50 p.m.
Typhoon in about 131 degrees Long. E, and 18 degrees Lat, N., moving WNW.
FALL OF CHANGTING IMMINENT
Rede In Retreat
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Preas" (Copyright.)1
Amoy, Oct. 13. Remnants of the Feds in Chang
MR.
".
BLENKIRON Well-known Figure At Kempton Park
(Special Air Mail Service).
London, Sept. 22. Blenktron, who at one time was at The death of Mr. Thomas Walter
"the head of the Kempton Park Racecourse Company, occurred at Hove on Wednesday. He had been in poor health for some time past. "A' correspondent writes:
Thomas Blenkiron was a man of exceptional modesty, in his general outlook on life, and to know him well, as I did, was to enjoy a very solid and enduring friendship.
Not long ago he was recalling to me the famous. Middie Park Stud at Etham, which was found- ed by his grandfather, Mr. William Blenktron. It was there that Her- malt and other notable thorough- breds were bred and reared.
The name of this stud -is. per- petuated to this day with the race at Newmarket in October, which is known as the Middle Park @takes. For three years the Ste- wards of the Jockey Club accept- ed from Mr. Blenkizon a sum of £1,000 annually as an endowment of the race, in order that breeders should be encouraged. It is nearly
was
I could
red, flowered silked dress ́with 'a very smart black shallow shaped bat. Mrs. Younghusband who did such a lot for the Cheer-O Club- was in a royal blue suit: a colour that suits her so well. Drouth
In a strawberry coloured sutt
with one of the latest Russian style blouses which looked so outstanding. not help noticing Mrs. Le Roy Newbert again. This time she was in a powder blue sports dress with white coat and a beautiful white fox" fur--she cut such a pretty picture that many were the glances that were cast in her direction, and Mrs. Benny Proulx wife of the popular jockey looked very happy when her husband steered St. Joan past the winning post first.
AFTER THE HOLIDAYS
Ient, and when we have & big crowd and everybody is merry. This time. I noticed there, were ́some very pretty evening dresses. although the majority of the women were in ordinary after- noon dresses. Still, it was a gay gathering and all looked so smart. and happy. Mis Henry, the little dark-haired lady, was very pretty in a little flowered tiaro, which seems to suit her extremely well. Mrs. Simmons was in a black and white suit, Mrs. Gee favoured a gray and black suit and hat to match, she is considered to be one of the best dressed women in town.
ON SATURDAY
Mrs. Taggart who has just come- back from a holiday was having coffee with Mrs. Benson, who was
There were many people to meet the Empress of Canada when she arrived on Friday. Among the people returning on her was Mrs. D. M. Bigger, wife of the manager of the Chase Bank. Mrs. Biggar is one of the most-popular hostesses in the local American community and she has done so for the International much Women's Club that I am sure many people were glad to see her night made dancing "very agree- back again.
"Mrs. Lambert Dunbar too ar- rived on the same vessel, also Mrs. A. L. Shields looked very charming as she walked down the gangway, in a brown...and white dress and brown satin hat, and even her Httle dog was very be-
M
LOCAL AND GENERAL
One case of enteric fever was reported for the 24 hours ended on Oct. 12.
The St. John Ambulance Asso- ciation is giving a course of First- Ald Lectures for men only at the YMCA Balisbury Road Kowloon The Fint lecture will be held on Tuesday Oct. 23rd at 9 p.m. All interested are invited to attend.
Lee Choo Ha, an 18-year old spinster residing at No. 233 Laichi- kok Road, second floor, has been arrested and charged with larceny in connection with the theft of a quantity of money and jewellery on board the RM8. Empress of Gang- da, last week, while the vessel was on a voyage, from Shanghai to the Colony. All the stolen property, totalling $410.50 in value has been
recovered.
FOREIGN LOAN REPORT
Official Denial
thirty years since Mr. Blenkiron (From Our Special Correspondent) won the Jubilee Handicap at Kempton Park with a horse ramed Ambition. He had had lots of horses since, though never many at a time, and not one of any special note,
silk was the bunge
in black. Mrs. Taggart's dress of tiny patterned green chic, and as usual, was crowded.
The cool weather on Saturday
ír
able There was, I believe," the usual crowd at the Hotel, and there were many private partles. I was in one of these, and if I am not too curious, who was that gay gentleman, pulling a rickshaw... near the CHoucester Building about midnight?
NEWS SUMMARY
The Machine Gun Troop's Gymk- bans on Saturday proved very suc cessfui.