NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY. LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT THE THIRTY- SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF "THIS COMPANY will be held at the Office Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Tuesday, the 12th February, 1935, AT NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended Alst December, 1984.
The Register of Shares of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday, the 4th February, 1935 to Tuesday, the 12th February, 1986, both days inclusige.
By Order of the Board of Directors, F. H. ORAPNELL,
Secretary. Bong Kong, 25th January, 1985.
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HONG KONG, JANUARY 98, 1996,
EMPIRE AND PEOPLE
The whole Empire will unite in the coming spring to celebrate the Suver Jubilee of his Majesty the King-Emperor. It will be a great occasion which we should strive worthily to commemorate, and we do not know if the Imperial Governments of the Dominions, which will meet in London on that consulted occasion. have yet together upon what might be the best memorial. If we look at the problem broadly we see that it was the work of our ancestors to make their Empire which great children should inhabit: but we have to confess that great tracte of this heritage are still empty
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935.
KIANGSU AND CHEKIANG
SILK FILATURE
Eighty Million Dollars Capital Outlay
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER
' (BY "NO" QUARTER ”)
NEWS SUMMARY
Mr. P. 8. Cassidy gave a very interesting lecture on the Com- mercial Antecedents of Hong Kong last night to the Law and Com- merce Society of the University.
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There is a frolic wind in the air Nations for Peace and against this morning, and I feel attle, War, for Good and against Evil, mad." The spirit of Pantaloon has and bring all countries and ali entered my inkpot, and the most creeds beneath the banner of In-. The next meeting of the English absurd extravagant fancies are ternationalism which knows no Association has been postponed to bubbling out of it. I shall have to leader and which fears no foe.” Tuesday, February 19, Page 6. be very careful, or F shall find my-
· Senator then expressed self writing endlessly about rubber vigorously the optalon that Ameri-
Mr. J. D. Lloyd, Superintendent. chucks, ang knife machines, and cp should double her army and Library distortera.
ravy, and that a high tariff wall of the Imports and Exports De- was necessary to avoid unfair compartment passed away-yesterday at
the Victoria Hospital-following-an- "petition.
attack of pneumonia.
It's no good; I must creep away and drink very hot coffee, or read" Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the
The
Page 7.
The dedication of the new Mos- que at the Kowloon Cemetery wall take place to-morrow at 230 p.m.
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Amalgamated Flature," and will be financed by existing silk con- Press" (Copyright).
terns with assistance from the Shanghal, Jan, 18
Government. Definite programme Through the efforts of the Silk
for the establishment has already Improvement Committee of the been "mapped out, and as soon as National Economic Council, leading a suitable location is found, the
DOWN WITH EVERYTHING. silk Industrialists of Kiangsu and work of construction will be in-Roman Empire." That ought to
A few days ago, I read in a local take the stuffing out of me. Cheklang, the two most prominent augurated.
paper that the head of a promin.... silk producing provinces, have The decline of China's silk ex-
I once had an uncle, a firemanent arm of London dressmakers come together to plan the estab-ports lately has prompted the of Belsize Park, who used to knit had made the following remark listment of a huge silk filature at Bilk Improvement Committee to period commodes out of strips of able statement: "There is no
devise means for winning back.
green parchment, There Was a capital outlay of 80 million dol-
doubt that the population of Eng- lars. "Not only will the Diature be the lost trade, and this gigantic nothing else remarkable about him land are now becoming fashion
black adam's apple. mindeda and the largest ever projected in this scheme is the outcome of long de except a
dress-conscious" liberations and strenuous efforts
caused by his mother being struck Population, mark you! Not the country, but it will have the
of the Committee. With theby lightning. most up-to-date equipments. 500
scientists and savants, whose gravy But I personally suspected the dribbles freely over their moss- modern machines will be purchas- establishment of this flature, It is ed from abroad, according to the believed that close co-operation vicar, the black hearted skunki
-grown beards as they peer at between various silk merchants
Eh bien! A nos moutons! plans drawn up by the Silk Im-
Syrius or decipher Amentotep's in- provement Committee on behalf of will bring about the improvement French for "Shall we join the scriptions; not the politicians and charged with assaulting Mr. Ma
of the quality of the silk and the the silk concerns.
The enterprise is to operate un-promotion of silk exports— der the name "Kiangsu-Chekiang | China United Press (by Mail).
and undeveloped. The increase of COMPREHENSIVE
population is slow, and largely concentrated in great cities alone. Many of the spaces between are little more than scratched" In Canada and Australia especially; and also in many other parts of the Empire, there are lands which await the plough, grass where no cattle graze, minerals awaiting-the-i pick and waters for the fisherman All through the Nineteenth Century
Britain has sent out a constant stream of emigrants to inhabit those regions, but the tide gradual- y came to a stand and now has turned inward again, so that there are more people going from the Dominions into Great Britain than WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, going from Great Britain to the
MoÚTRIK & Co, and the
CHISA EMPORIUM.
1935.
COMBINED SERVICES
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SHANGHAI
Royal Navy and Royal Marines Sports Ground, Causeway Bay. ADMISSION.-$1.10. 60 cta, & 30 ct
G. T. MAY,
Hon. Secretary.
18190
28rd February, 1935.
· HONG KONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,
THE
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Dominions.
PROGRAMME
Reconstruction In Fukien
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright).3
Foochow, Jan. 21.
SERICULTURAL
EXPERIMENTS
ladles").
OCEAN, MONSTER BERTHS
The 3.3. “NAUSEA,” ocean grey hound and globe-circler, arrived in Hong Kong last night. In addi- tion to the usual crowd of plea- sure-seekers, she carries as a pre- cious cargo some of the world's „moes famous and influential men. The first of these whom I had the privilege to interview was Dr.
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A meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday when HE the Governor presided. Several new bills were read for the prst time.
Page 6.
Two of the three men who were
poets who weare equally fantastic Tau Nam of the Empress Hotel, pictures in the loom of their were found guilty yesterday at the imagination. Not even the busin¡ Criminal Sessions.
ess magnates who cudgel their dull
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Corner Stone Laid Of HERDICE CHARTERIS MD, FRCS, such sartorial insistence. Ah God! toon Magistrate, was further ad-
New Station
FRAKGC. His position and an- thority in the Medical World is unchallenged, and he has Invented new cures for Sposia, Flitters,
Parcetin Vomica), ""
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dishonest brains to make por- Mr. and Mrs. Bowes-Smith "gave tentous and indisputable platitudes : an excellent Plano and Vocal Re- about commodity prices. Not these, cital at the Helena May Institute not · But the silly "niggling little last night.
Page 7. puppets that jangle their brightly dressed irritating little bodies Bo"
The armed robbery in which glx fore their wisers and betters with
men were charged before the Kow-
An Montreal! Let me take out my journed yesterday. cardboard flail again and beat it with vacuous-fury over the heads of the silly empty headed little
rule the globe. They tail not neither do they spin, but Bolamon in all his glory would not be seen, dead arrayed like one of these.
Beau Brummel once made a wise The Doctor waved me graciously remark about clothes: "If John to a chair,
Bull. turns to look round at you, "I need hardly remind you,”, he ; you are not well dressed; but, said in a melodious indiy bari- either too stin, too tight, or too tone, that my fee for consulta fashionable.": tion upon any subject whatsoever
Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Robinson's disease, and Ghirge women who think they own and
'Pres" (Copyright)
I went to his stateroom. Nanking, Jan. 19.
"I am from the Daily Press," I A comprehensive programme "for Under the auspices of the Seri-said. "I have come to interview
during cultural Improvement Committee economie reconstruction
you." the current year, including water of the National Economic Counchi, conservancy, highway construc- the cornerstone of the -projected tion and afforestation, has been Sericultural Experimental Station approved by the Provincial Gov-as laid yesterday at Slaohsing erument of Fuklen,
A Provincial Hydraulic Engineer ng Bureau will be inaugurated next month under the direct con- trol of the Provincial Department of - Reconstruction. The present Min Kiang Conservancy Committee and the Changlon Farmland Ir
chen outside Nanking in the pre- sence of a representative gather- ing, including Mr. Chin Fea, Sec- retary-General of the Nationalve guiness for three minutes." Economie Cappel, and Dr. Beaito ed. " is the secret of perfect health "What, in your opinion," I ask-
Mari, serioural expert from the
and long life?" League of Nations. The station is expected to be completed some
It is a position neither healthy LOT secure. "Having read the history of other countries," said Cecil Rhodes in his simple and direct fashion; "I saw that expan- sion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity. should be to takè-as much of the rigation Bureati will be abolished time in April when the breeding mels. Nothing else? The Lettuce
Our
and all affairs connected with water conservancy and irrigation will be taken charge of by the owly instituted Engineering Bur-
ean.
of silkwormd will be started.
This station is one of the two projected by the Committee, the other to be established in Hangchow.
“Lettuce," said Dr. Charteris, Lots of lettuce, and pure cara
is Nature's vacuum cleaner, while the Caramel provides the neces- sary polophydic vitamin content."
The doctor glanced at his watch, "Twenty-one minutes, I see: that will be thirty five guineas. Thank you. Good morning."
world as it possibly could.”” fathers took a great slice of the world with this idea in mind; but if the British people do not make the best use of this great heritage, there are other nations which will
A net-work of highways cover- The total appropriation for the ing a distance of over 1,200 kilo Sericultural Improvement Com demand, and take their share. It meters is the aim of the program-mittee for the 23rd fscal year 1s possible to imagine the logical
SENATOR-STRIKES HOME „‚· me. 400 kilometers have already (July, 1934-June, 1935) has been
By the same ship is travelling nd eloquent representatives of been completed last year. Three axed by the National Economic such nations getting up at Genevu
main lines, the Klenning-Ninghua- Council at $400,000. Of this, $100,- SENATOR BULB of Big Smell, FRIDAY, and proposing that those who could Changting-Julkin (Kiangsi), the 000 has been alloted to the estab. Ark, frebrand of the US Senate, Shahsten - Yungan Lienenengishment of the Nanking and whose unusual and sometimes re- Chanting and the Shahslen-Tsing-Hangehow Experimental Stations: Volutkmary pronouncement have Hu-Ninghua-Shincheng (Kiangst), $100,000 as expenses for demon-made him the terror of the Right are included in this year's project. strations in silk-worm breeding Wing
He was too busy to see me for, Special engineering corps have in the provinces of Kiangsu, Aze- already beer sent, by the Depart-chaian,
Shantung, more than a few minutes, but sent ment of Reconstruction for survey. Kwangtung, Hupeh and Annwel; the following message to Hong.
Kong. An Agricultural and Afforesta- $80,000 as the maintenance ex- tion Improvement Station will also penses of the Committee; and be established. During the current $100,000 for other purposes, includ- New Year in the great comity of year, an agricultural station willing assistance in the research be established in each of the dis- work for the proposed Klangsu
ANNUAL DINNER DANCE will be held at the Peninsula Hotel on MARCH 1, 1935.
Booking of Tables will Open on February 11th, at the Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels. The charge is $5.00 per head and should be paid for at the time of booking [3183
DEATHS
LLOYD-At the Victoria Hospital òn January 24, 1935, after a brief illness, John Daniel Lloyd, Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hong Kong, Funeral will pass the Monument at 4.30 this afternoon.
[3194 EWING-On January 7, 1835, at
his home, 5, Herschel-road.. Cambridge, Sir James Alfred Ewing, KCB, FRS, aged 79. Late Professor of Applied Mechanics of the Universities of Tokyo, of Dundee, and of Cambridge; late Director Naval Education; late Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the Univer-
hot make use of the great surplus of their Dominions and Colonies should yield them to those others. who had none. In what is called natural justice there would be a case, and it might even be enforced
without respect to titles and legality, if by that time the British Navy had fallen below, the level of power adequate to the defence of these enormous possessions. This is A danger as much for the Dominions.
Country, and the best way to avert it is not merely to defend empty lands, but to fill them,
chikising.
China United Pres
NOISY AND DRUNKEN STUDENTS
for the Mothertricts of Changlob, Nantsing and cheklang Amalgamated Filature.
Changpu; an afforestation station in Nanping: a nursery each in Minhou (Foochow and Putien; & Institute" and biological reseach an animals husbandry experimen- tal station in Foochow; a tobacon improvement station in Yungting: a sugar cane station in Lungki; a husbandry station each in Tain- klang and Ankl; a water gauge station each in some Afteen dis- tricts; and a meterological sta-graphic Messages Ordinance, 18. tion each in the six cities of Foo- Receiral, January 11. $.50 p.m.) chow. Amoy, Santuao, Changting, Tenping and Pucheng China United Pres
Here, then, is the idea of a worthy memorial to set before our pation in the coming Jubilee: a high endeavour so to redistribute our people as to make the best both or them and their heritage. Tu make the spirit of this great enter prise once more a living force in the heart of the British race is the drst requirement, we must kindle and cultivate this purpose in life as a substitute for the easy and SAAR EMIGRANT FIGURES hopeless drift towards disintegras tion which is prevalent in these times. Pulpit, Press and wireless might combine in such a 'DIO~
sity of Edinburgh.
(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Fress)
(Big Telegraph. Coveright. Tale
Berlin, January 24 "Noisy and drunken students are in the eyes of hard-working fellow citizens common enemies to the commmity declares a pro clamation by the Dean of the Technical College at Hannover:
paganda, But there is need also LATE MR. TENG an ow to suspend the
CHAK YU
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright:).]
Paris, Jan. 23. Altogether 2,500 Saar inhabitants for thorough and basle staff-work! comprising of 1,873 Saarlanders, 35 on this subject. Recent history, in Frenchmen and 442 persons of Australia, in Canada and at home other nationalities emigrated from is strewn with the wreckage of the Baar to France since January many promising projects of migra- 13, according to the report tion, which failed either for lack furnished to the French cabinet of thoroughness in preparation ori
of persistence and courage in on Wednesday by M. Herriot,"
The Baar refugees, it is learned, operation. The Empire, Bettlement: will be accmmodated for the timeAct of 1922 made a hopeful begin- being in camps in Toulouse, Monning with plans fifteen years ahead (From Our Special Correspondent) tauban and Carcanonne, Transocean Kuo Min.
SCOTTISH CUP FOOTBALL
Paris. January 23, Two matches in the First Round the Scottish Cup were brought ward from Saturday and play
East Stirling losing
ure to Halt
goal in three
Last Respects To Party Leader
academic corporation Brunonia" for offensive behaviour on the part of its members Transocean Zuo ulin
“Let us all join together this
There! Have you taken all that to heart, my poppets?
TAILPIECE
PIQUE, OR TRAMWAY
"TRUCULENCEV
Ir known to be tough, and two
Asted
My guns are both loose in their
sheath,
In dissolute bara
In Far-Eastern bazaars.. They whisper my name through
their teeth.
I've killed seven hombres in Rio. I've fought with a policeman st.
Кен. I've potted rare plants": In the worst parts of France, And broken the gueck of a Cinu -You won't frighten me with your.
talking:
You'll find me as blatant as brass,
I don't give a damn!. I'm riding that tram For ten cents a time,
Class!
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Hong Kong dollar registered ! - Messrs. Derrick & Co, Singapore, a slight rise again yesterday when It opened at is 9
One case of enteric fever, and one case of cerebrospinal fever were reported to the health authorities during the 24 hours ended January
The many friends of Mr. M. B. J Walsh will be glad to know he has recovered from his recent liness and will be well enough to leave Hong Kong, accompanied by Mrs. Walsh, on Tuesday, January 29, by the Empress of Japan for Shanghai
local Secretaries of The Raub Aus- tralian Gold Mine Company Ltd.*- advise that the output for the four weeks ended January 21935 amounted to 1,002,70 ounces.
The Annual Service of the Bong Kong University Christian Associa tion for the presentation of Bibles will be held on Sunday, January 27- to the 1934 University graduates at 8:30 am at St Stephen's Church, Pokfulam Road. A sermon will
also be preached by Rev. Lawrence are cordially invited to att Russell All members and friends
The St John
Wong Shing, a fitter, dropped 12 feet down a staging on which be was at work on the Empress of with Japan at the Kowloon Docks He received a head injury necessitat
ing his removal Into hospital
A quiet wedding was solemn by The Very Rev Dean Al Swann at BL
•before the
bearing the mains of Teng As high om- cials and others bowed before the planes swooped casket, down from the skies in salute to
2 yesterda the departed f
the par Cen- Beveral mot
carried tons Perey Comey, a ratios was of wresti
numerous of the Shanghal Mun metery clats and
olls and MissEvelyn
who arr were cent Guiston, north-were The by
ong yesterday on
and a vote of three millions sterling
Canton, Jan. 24,
Yu a year between 1922 and 1937; but The late Mr. Teng the term is now nearly over member of the Kuom over one fifth of the money has tral Supervisory Cou been expended on the purpose to burled to-day near which it was dedicated, and in the of the First Division
ern outskirts interval emigration has reatly declined. We do not ignore the procession started economic causes which have con- Road, the tribute to this fallure but we and went
that free-will has a hand streets of the
nt
in the shaping of destiny, and that
recover the dire che goal, which peopled the Empire it would slon
possible to continue the work
Athletic
coicials pald
Shu Pak the
prine
the
permiss
For the
Exhibition
the
RUMANIA'S DEBTS TO BRITAIN
London, Jan. 23. The Rumanian Finance Minis- ter. Strunge, is shortly returning to London to resume discussions with the Treasury regarding Ru- manian commercial debts due to British merchants, approximating £2,000,000.
During his visit in December. Strunga was unable to make ac ceptable proposals, and he return- ed to consult his Government." It" is now hoped that he will bring proposals offering a suitable basis for discussion- Beuter.
PRINCE OF WALES HONOURED
London, Jan. 23.
H. R H the Prince of Wales, who is in an enthusiastic amateur gardener, will be admitted to the. Freedom of the Gardeners Com- pany on March 5,24
The Princess Royal, the only other member of the Royal Family who is a Freeman of the Com- pany, will atterd the ceremony. fritish Wireless."
OIL TANKER VALVERDA
London, Jan. 23 The Admiralty announces:
ips-Frobishire and Guardian are is company with the Valverda, and two attempts have been made. to take her in tow. Both falled on account of heavy weather and of the fact that the steering gear of the Va verda is out of actio). "EM, ships are stil standing
her to moderate. The Valverda by and are waiting for the wea
a British oil tanker which was disabled by are in mid-Atlan British Wireles
EVANGELIST'S TOUR OF
WORLD
Seattle, Jan
Mrs. Aimee Bemple famous California evan
the
ed from here to-day aboard Hye-Maru, on the first her world tour, ve
She will visit Japan," top door, on Monday - Philippines, India. - Greece i and
January, Germany.
will be held in the
Tuesday and (282429
be of admission are from pm to 6 pmNo charge: will
but a collecting will be placed for those to help the
DEATH OF
BAR
Router
China, the
the
ide
OFF TO DAYTONA
JOHN AYNE