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ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO. (1918) LTD.,
NOTICE.
THE Sixteenth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Head Office of the Company, St. George's Building, Chater Road, Victoria, Hong Kong Thursday, 27th December,
on
1934, at 12.15 p.m., for the purpose. of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the Directors for the financial year ended 39th Sep- tember, 1934, and electing Directors and Auditors
The Transfer Tooks of the Com- pany will be closed from Tuesday, 18th December, 193+, till Monday. 81st December. 1984, both days inclusive.
NOEL BRAGA,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 10th December, 1934.
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
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THE ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING of the above Society will be held at THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE ca TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18th, 1934, at 5.15 P.M.
His Excellency, The GOVERNOR, Will l'reside.
All interestaduro Cordially Invited
to Attend.
8. V. BOXER,
M. A. COOPER,
Joint Hon. Directors.
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10th December, 1934.
IN THE SUPREME "COURT OF HONG KONG.
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HONG HONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1934.
INTEREST IN THE SAAR CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY
PLEBISCITE
Non-Resident Inhabitants Begin To Arrive
(Special to the "Hong Kong
Daily Press"). (B) Telegraph, Copyright, Taim graphic
Ordinance, Metrages
1891- Racalord, December 11, 4:30 p.m.)
Saarbruecken, Dec. 11. The advance guards of the non-
KNOX ARMY
London, Dea. 11. Speculation is still rife whether the Highlanders or Royal Guards will form the contingent of “Knox, Army"the term substituted by the British Press for the inter- national Baar police called so after the head of the Saar Govern- Ing Commission and the former foreign office official Knox. The entire Knox Army it is understood will be placed under the command Side arms of a Major General.
resident inhabitants of the Saar, who are on their way from the four corners of the globe in order to cast votes in the forthcoming plebiscite which will decide the late of their native soil, are begin ning to arrive Herc already and are being taken care of by the or-will be used by the troops daring ranisation which in the past few police duty. It is not believed that months have been busy preparing tanks will be supplied.--
Transeeran Kuo in. lodgings for the host of visitors. DAVIES. On December 7, 1934, at
The number of qualified voters
FOREIGN CONTINGENTS
London, Dec. 10. the Country Hospital, Shang-living outside Saar territory are
The Foreign Secretary, Sir John hal, to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. estimated to be 55,000 of whom Davis, a daughter.
about 48,000 will come from Ger- Simon, announced in the House of inany, 5,000 from France and most Commons to-day that in addition ly from the neighbouring districts to Great Britain and Italy, both the Netherlands and the Swedish of Lorraine, 900 from the United," States and Canada, 210 from Cen-Government had now accepted the tral and South America, 30 from Invitation of the League Council to send contingents to the Saar dur- Africa and Asia, the rest being dis-
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Editorial and Busfnem Ofɑe: '11
Ice House Street. Tel. 3086! Night Editor (Wanchai Office)
Tel: 24511.. London Office: 53, Fleet
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Street,tributed in other European coun-ing the plesimor
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, DECEMBER 12, 193-4.
TRADITION IN BRITISH
BANKING · '.
Prof. Raymond Moley recently!
tries.
Certificates printed on banknote paper in order to prevent forgeries will be given to all persons entitled to vote who must also be in posses- sion of passports.
Those coming from Germany will have special trains and quarters allotted to them and all voters living outside the territory will be given. free transportation by train or steamer.- Transocean Kuo Min.
said that "the English "banking FIRST MEETING
system is fortified by generations | of wise banking legislation." The statement is hardly valid in the sense that it implies that good laws have made
good banking.
OF SESSION
Draft Constitution Discussed
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The "Guaranty Survey," organ of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, said that "the wisdom of English banking legislation les mainly in its scarcity." But the
commercial banker -in [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Britain is not anywhere near
Fress" (Copyright,31
Nanking Dec. 11..
Sir John Simon said that be four states would be on duty in hoped the forces provided by these the Baar before Christmas- British Wireless.
DUTCH MARINES
Rotterdam, Dec. 10. It is understood that 200 Dutch Marines will leave for the Saar region to-morrow, where they will comprise part of the international force that will police the region during the plebiscite, next month.-- Reuter.
NAVAL TALKS IN LONDON
Rumour Of An Adjournment
g London, Dec. 11. It is believed the naval talks may "be adjourned this week or the next
as burdened with legislation as is his confrere in the United States, The Arst regular meeting of the for an extended Christmas holiday, The Guaranty Survey is right plenary session to-day NOTICH IS HEREBY GIVEN when it says, "It is the tradition tended by so
the provision of Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made an order limiting the time for breditors and others to send in their olaims against the above estate to the 2ND JANUARY, 1935.
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 Vœux Road, Central,
Hong Kong.
Central
at-
was Executive
of sound bank management, com- Committee members and 13 Cen- bined with a minimum of un-tral Supervisory Committee mem- necessary government interference bers, including Mr. Sun Fo and and restriction, that explains the six members from Canton who strength of the British banking arrived by night train system." But the bank review does not explain that this absence
General Chiang Kai Shek, the meeting's chairman, was prevent
but the report is so far not con- irmed officially. If an adjourn- ment takes place now, the naval delegates would meet again early next year. They would then be confronted by a new situation as Japan's denunciation of the Washington Treaty would have oc- curred meanwhile
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SIAMESE DEPUTATION
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· London, Déc. 11. To abdicate or not to abdicate that is the question which the | King of Biàm"' will have to answer on Wednesday when a Siamese delegation of three which has come to visit the monarch calls on King Prajadhipok at Knowle where the Siamese Royal couple are soujour- ng. In asking the King to re- consider his decision to abdicate, the delegation. which is headed by the President of the National Assembly, will explain to the King the meaning of the three bills, which he refuses to approve and on account of which he has threaten- ed to abdicate.-
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MOSQUE CLOSED
Istanbul, Dec. 11. The most famous example of early Byzantine architecture in the world, the mosque in Hajis, Sofia was visited by hundreds of true believers desiring to celebrate the great Mohammedan fast of Rama- dan. The would-be worshippers were, however grievously disap- pointed when they discovered on the entrance of the door of the mosque a notice reading "closed for repairs since it is now a museum." The Hajis in Sofia was a Christian church from the year of its construction 537 till the "Turks captured Constantinople in the middle of the 15th century... Pranzotean Iuo Min.
- CINEMA FIRE TOLL
Madrid, Dec. 11. Eight persons are dead and ten gravely injured as a result of a panic which followed an outbreak of are in a cinema theatre in a Hittle hamlet Dear Ternel ! Arragon on Monday evening "ransocean Kuo Min.
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A verdiet of "Manslaughter by So Shing, So Ping and Sang King con- Lük" was returned at the clusion of the inquest held at Cen-
tral Magistracy before Mr. W. Schofield into the death of Wong
Pak Klu "allas" Wong Cheuk Lam as the result of a fall from the third floor of 157. Des Voeux Road
under another name bad been arrested by the local police here. The youthful communist chief who had adventurous career-10 years ago Moscow sent him to China along with the U-famed Borodin to carry out his subver- sive activities there is wanted by the German authorities for "poll-Central on the night of September tical murder." It is still unknown whether he will be extradited to Germany.— Transocean Kua fin.
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The loquest into the death of an aged woman who died na & result of a fall was again adjoum- «. ed.