HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1935.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS.
CHINESE CUSTOMS.
NOTIFICATION.
"CTING under instructions from the Inspector General of Chinese Customs, I have this day
taken over charge of the Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District from Mr. E BATHURST, Acting Deputy Commissioner i charge, ad interim,
A. S. CAMPBELL Commissioner of Chinese Customs, Kowloon and District.
York Building,
Hong Kong, 9th April, 1935.
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HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
OPAR DOUBLE: SEMI-FINAL THURSDAY, 11TH APRIL, 4.30 P.M.
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PAUL KONG & LEE WAI TONG. Admission to Stand $.100 (incl. Tax) Booking now open at Moutrie & Co.
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HONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
A
THE FANLING HUNT AND · RACE CLUB.
POSTPONED SPRING MEETING..
THE meeting which was to have beau bald on Sunday last, the 31st March, 1933, and which was postponed on account of Babies, has been honed.
It bas b Ambulance Race for
ecided to run The lace, and a Country Post Entries), at Kwanti, on Saturday, the 18th instant, at 3.30 p.m. There will be no Parl-Mutuel or Cash Sweep conducted on this date.
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Entry Fees paid by members will be credited to Members' accounts, By order of the Stewards,
THOMSON & CO.....
Secretaries.
8th April, 1935.
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THE FANLING HUNT AND
RAUE.CLUB.
THE AMBULANCE SWEEP
IF
T has boon decided to" run the Ambulance Cup Race, At Kwanti, on Saturday, the 13th instant, at 3.20 p.m...
The Draw for the Ambulance Sweep will take place on Thursday, the 11th instant, at 5.80 p.m. at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Connaught Road.
Ticket holders are invited to be present.
In Charge of the Sweep. ./3416
J.C. MACGOWN, A MORRIS,
GENERAL MEETING OF MEMBERS will be held on MONDAY, 15th April, 1935 at 4.45 p.m. in the Officer of the Chamber of Commerce, Chartered Bank Building, | 8th April, 1935 - to nominata a Member of the Chamber for appointment to the Legislative Council vice Mr. C. Gordon Mackie (resigned).
Notice in writing of the Name of Candidates and their Proposers and Seconders to be lodged with the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at least 48 hours before the time apointed for holding the Meeting.
By Order,
M. F. KEY,
Secretary, Hong Kong, 8th April, 1935. [3419
* BONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO, LTD.
TOICE is hereby given that the
THE HONG KONG, CANTON
· AND MACAO STEAMBOAT
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
N°
TOTICE is hereby given that the ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEENTH ORDINARY MEET- ING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Oce of the Company, Queen's Building, Vic- toria, Hong Kong, on WEDNES DAY, the 10th April, 1935, at 3
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY.
TH
THE Summer Term will begin on Thursday, April, 11th, when New Students, whether Boarders or Day-boys, should attend for examing tion at 9a.. Prospectusss may be obtained from Mr. Li Hoi Tang, Aesara Banker & Co., Bank of China Building, or The Warden, St. Stephen's College, Stanley.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKET CLUB.
RAFT Programmes and Entry
Forms for the Extra Race Meeting, to be held on SATURDAY, 20th and MONDAY, &ind APRIL, 1935 (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, † Gloucester Building The Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Clab; and the Stables, Bhan Kwong Road
Entries alose at 19 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, the 11 APRIL
By Order."
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N THIRTEENTH ORDINARY 4th April to the 10th April, 1935, YEARLY MEETING of Shareholders | both days inclusive.
of the Hongkong Engineering and Construction Company, Limited, will
be held at the Offices of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mercantile
By Order of the Board of Directors, H. DA LUZ,
Acting Secretary.
Bank Building, Queen's Road Hong Kong, 19th March, 1995.
(Central) Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 24th April, 1935, at 12 o'clock (Neon), for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors and a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the 81st December, 1934, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Com-
pany will be closed from the 17th April to the 24th April, 1995, both days inclusive..
By Order of the Board
B. ALVES,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th April, 1935.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
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VARTIOULARS & CONDITIONS the SAL by Public Auction so be held on MONDAY, the 10 DAT of APRIL, 1986, at
at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of Hirs BIOELLINGY THE GOYELNOx of ... One Lot of QROWN LAND at Hang Hom in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term ol 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Orowa Bent to be fixed by the Burrsyor of H MAJESTY THE Kore, for one further terms of 75 years.
PARTICULARE OF THE LOT.
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that the FIFTIETH Annual
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The Register of Bhares of the Company will be closed from Thurs day, the 11th day of Apni to Wednesday, the 17th day of April, 1985, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of shares can be registered. *-**- JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 3rd April, 1935,
£3402
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Hong Kong, APRIL 10, 1935.
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COMMUNISTS MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA NEWS SUMMARY
MENACE
Troops Moved To Hunan
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, April 9. Sweeping down from the North, Nanking forces under General
THE RESOLUTE TOURISTS
Invade Shanghai
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally
Fress" (Copyright.}}
Shanghai, April 4. Shang Kuarig Yun Shang, have
On her 14th round-the-world captured Tsun Yi and Tungtzu lo Kwelchow on the North bank of cruise and with every cabin filled the Wu Kiang River.
with world tourists of all national- The main force of the Comities. the 20,000-ton Hamburg- munists is located at Wengan and Amerika liner Resolute arrived in Pingyueh in Eastern Kwelchow. part early yesterday morning. There is a tendency that they are going farther East. Hai Feng, which is about 35 miles above Kwelyang, was evacuated by the outlaws who also retreated to the East,
As the Reds may move towards. Hunan, General Chiang Kai Shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, has ordered the North-eastern troops in the Hopel area, to move to Hunan. The strength is about 20,000. These troops will be sent down by rail- way from Petping to Hankow, thence to Changsha,
They are due to arrive in Western Hunan by Saturday.
General Ho Chien, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, has stationed three divisions at Yu Pinig in Western Hunan in anticipation of a communket at- tack. At Wengan, the Communists can turn in any direction they de- sire.
SOLDIER AND WRITER
General Chen Yu Kun
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, Apr. 9; Researches
and in political economic problems, publicity work and translation of important writings from foreign works into Chinese constitute the scope of a new recretariat of the First Group Army, which begins to function to-day.
Lieut.-General Chen Yu Kun, secretary gaperal of the First Group Army, will be the direc- tor of the secretariat.
THE MUKDEN EXPLOSION
Volunteers Blamed
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily
Pross" (Copyright)}|{
Tientsin, April. 1.
Following diangreement as to the ship's value in the recent case in which the owners of the 5.3. Asial were`sued for payment for salvage work done to the ship, His Honour the Chief Justico; "Mr; AD, A.
MacGregor sat at the Supreme
Court yesterday to receive the apt praisement of the vessel. Page 6...
A correspondent who signs him- Over 60 workers were killed and self "Safety Valve" writes to ask about 20 others unaccounted for, f whether any precautions are taken as the result of an éxplosion in the to guard against accidents in the Mukden Arsenal on the morning of ease of the steam pumps used for March 30, according the belated pile driving on the site at Queen's Page 7. reports received here from Man-Road. ** churia,
Cash registers in Shanghai shops. | clicked merrily yesterday- as the tourists bargained for jades, rugs, Chinese silks, jewellery, lingerie. and other things dear to the hearts of transient visitors to China: However 140, members of the party will not go on a spending spree by neighbourhood of $800,000,
B. D. Rumjahn defeated Paul any means. These are the Ger- Rocking the entire neighbour-Kong yesterday by 6-2, 6-3 and will man members of the tour. At-hood, the 'explosion occurred at 8 now meet his cunsin #8A” in the cording to recently passed Nazi am when the stats were working semi-final of the Open Singles laws, their budgets, no matter how in full force, and the conflagration Championship. much they want to spend are lasted until 7 o'clock in the even- limited. From titled Princess down to Herr Scandao, each German tourist is limited to spending on the whole 136-day trip not over 600 marks, or about U.S. $240. Among other members of the party, money is flowing freely, de-recovered. pression or no depression.
The explosion was due to the The controversy on local cinema The bursting of the No. 1 boller, fol- prices continues inabated. lowed by fire which raged for fully latest contribution is by a corre- eleven Bours before it was brought spondent over the nom-de-plume. under control, the messages state. Pictures."
Page T. The damage was estimated in the
In view of certain suspicions as
Page 10.
ing. A part of the building, about. Admiral Sir Frederick C. Drayer 23 rooms in all, was stated to have left yesterday on board H.M.S. Kent been destroyed. Only four of the
for Tokyo. News has also been 85 workers, who were in the build-received that Commodore Sedgwick ing at the time, escaped. Uptown relieve Commodore Frank Elliot the present 64 bodies have been as Commodore.
Page 6.
Presiding at the annual meeting cause of the sudden ex of the Hong Kong Ministering Most of the newspapermen, pub to the lishers, journalists, and editors, plosion, martial law was declared who comprised a number of the by the Japanese and "Manchokuo" League and Ministering Children's passengers aboard this round-the-garrison forces. The vice-director League held at Helena May In were friendly and of the arsenal, Mr. Yuan Hsi-Chan, stitute yesterday, Mrs. R. M. Hen~ talkative, though their views dif- the chief boiler-room foreman, derson said that over $10,000 wers fered on various points.
and 13 workers have been arrested raised for charities in the course
of last year,
Page 7. and held for questioning.
world cruise
Mr. F. W. Kellogg, former owner of the "San Francisco Call" and the "Los Angeles Evening Express" and retired publisher of 16 dally newspapers in Los Angeles, was one of several Resolute passengers with some pretty definite idens about business and political con- ditions in the Far East. Mr. Kellogg la known as pro-Japanese. **JAPAN BADLY TREATED"
"Japan has been badly treated by the major powers and this the thing that is not generally im derstood in the United States," said Mr. Kellogg when questioned about the conditions in this part
of the world.
person
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campaigns in the press. You may call the Americans at home: more provincial, or even more guluble, than monded people who can af- ford to travel, but facts remain,”
The Japanese authorities bélieve
Lady. Feel, attended by Captain that the fire was the work of the
Ac-R F Walter, A. D.C., was present anti-Japanese Volunteers. cording to another report, the at the Spring Festival of the Quarry anti-Japanese
have Bay School held yesterday. "Page 6.
Volunteers
become very active around Mukden following the fire which destroyed arsenal there yesterday. China United Fren (by Mail),
According to Mr. Brinkley, author of "An American Sees the New Germany," everything in Germany is excellent. He said thas 96 per cent of the people are behlid Hitler and that Hitler is solidly for peace despite the fact that Germany is..arming. Hitler, like Mussolini was at first, is a mis- understood, man, but later, like Mussolint) will be understood," Mr. Brinkley concluded.
and
SKEPTICAL OF NEW DEALTM Colonel Church Williams, US. Army, retired, former associate
Deal" He expressed the view that
the trend towards increasing armaments in America was simply
Fong Tong, a 24-year-old unem- ployed was committed to stand his trial at the next Criminal Sessions by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Cen- tral Magistracy yesterday for lar- ceny of a gold and jade pin and for assault.
Paze 8.
ELECTION IN
DANZIG
National Socialist Support
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright:)]
But his son, Mr. Wm. Scripps Kellogg, publisher of the Glendale (Calif.) News-Press, has different Colonel Chung Chleb. Min, sec-
idea, on the subject. "What was retary of the First Group Army, the Japanese Armada outside Woo- is appointed, assistant director sung for?" he asked. "We passed with the rank of brigadier gen- about 56 vessels some 120 miles eral. He will be concurrently in from Shanghai. Is all that to charge of the second section, make an impression on the Chin-
editor of the "Saturday Evening which takes care of press infor-
ese? The feeling of the average Post, is skeptical of the "New mation, translation of foreign
In the United States is news into Chinese and general I quite anti-Japanese, and this feel- telligence work.
ing is partially whetted by the
Danzig, April 8, The other sections are in charge
due to a feeling that pacifism had dates, as the result of Sunday's The probable allotment of man- of general affairs, documents and
resulting undermanning in forces. Socialists 44 out of a total of 72 been carried to an extreme-with elections will give the National- telegraphic reports.
Lieut-General Char Ya Kun is
"There is a feeling of total uncer seats which means they gain ax the editor and publisher of the
tainty at home," he said, "which seats while all the other parties, official Min Kuo Jih Pao, local
“ORED GERMANY"
is Shared by the Administration with the sole exception of the vernacular newspaper. A writer Another journalist aboard the and the pubile alike, Not that Poles, ahow losses. The Socialists of note, General, Chen was caused ship is Mr. Douglas Brinkley, of there ste no certain goals in retain twelve of their former to be published in his paper edi- New York City, whe very proudly mind, but opinions differ widely as thirteen seats, the Catholic centre torials on international relations. | displayed a picture of himself to whether and how they can be likewise loses one and retains
The Pacific question, naval dis-shaking hands with Reichsfuehrer reached." he remarked. armament and the situation in Hitler.
Both have mousaches. China United Frons (by Mail.
nine, the German nationals a fall off from 4 to 3 seats while ther Communists were deprived of three of their former five seats: *
The Polish group was – able to hold its ground by - keeping its former two seats The President of-the-- Danzig? Senate, Greizer issued a proclamation to the
points out that the election had shown that an overwhelming. The following wreaths were majority of inhabitants are stand- One case of small-pox, two of diphtheria, fire of enteric fever omitted from the account of the ing behind the National Socialist (3 imported), nine of cerebro-spinal late Mr. Haroon's funeral, in our party and the Government and fever (six imported), one of rabies issue of yesterday: Mr. and Mrs that the population had thereby (human) and 54 deaths from tuber W. L. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. R, T. expressed its disapproval of the
Authorities for the week-ended Smith, Mr. and Mrs. V. Hun, Mr. culosis were reported to the Health Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Grant machinations and agitation of the.
Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. EL Opposition. April 6.
and Mts. U. Het Bang, Mr. R. A Carroll and Mr. R. Carroll, and the address on "Profits and Dividends" Jobbing Department,Hong Kong was delivered by Mr. T. A. Martin Daily Fress" to a large gathering at the meet- ing of the Hong Kong University Law and Commerce Society held at the Union. Assembly Hall last night.
great interest
customers préferences, are being
studied and acted upon
LOCAL AND GENERAL
TWD cases of diphtheria were The last bus leaves Repulse Bay for population on Monday in which he reported to the Health Authorities | Hong Kong at 1 ́am. for the 24 hours ended on April 8. •
Ever since its inception the NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN British Industries Fair had been
Germany are being watched with Ordinary General Meeting of the one of which the country had
by the military Company (since its registration) will reason to be proud. The systematic be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, and efficient way in which its authorities here, and the new sec- Hong Kong on Tuesday, the 16th organisation had been carried out retariat is to keep the First Group April, 1936, at 11.30 A.M., for the had, from the very earliest days of Army well informed on latest in- purpose of receiving the Report of its existence, enjoyed the admira-ternational developments and to the General Managers, together, with tion of visitors from the various release to Chinese and foreign a Statement of Accounts for the year countries attending the Fair. The papers and anti-Communist sup- ended 31st October, 1984.
and people responsible for its organisa-pression, pacification work
all sorts of publicity 'stuff, ton in 1935, however, had a special. task to perform, in that It was not only Jubilee Year, but also the year in which the Fair celebrates its
The 1935 display has been crown coming of age. It was in 1916 when British manufacturers Arsted with a success that it deserves. set up their stalls in the Agricni-It la gratifying indeed, to learn that was expressed then that it was a record but to hear that the goods tural Hall, and though the opinion the space needed by the goods is
expressed that it was same required by buyers is likely to touch what ostentatious for the British & record figure is even more en- merchants to boom themselves like couraging. According to statistics An interesting and instructive that, the success of the Fair, left published, no fewer that seventy #deep impression on the mind of three countries have sent repre- even the severest critic. The re-sentatives to the British Industries sult, therefore, was that each Fair and those who were making succeeding fair was carried out on their initial visit to this great dis- a more elaborate acale than its pre-play must have wondered deeply decessor, and now, when we look at the versatility of the small back on those far off days what island, to whose skill no material is Mra. Q: A. A. Macfadyen, will give Fifty-fourth Ordinary improvements do we noticef At intractable and no task amiss a lecture on Sane Aspects of General Meeting of the Com- Olympia and the White City, the They must have also noticed that Modern Foetry” to the Hong Kong pany will be held at the Officer of Fair is six times the size of that stubbornness with which the University Arts Association Special to the "Hong Kong Dally the General Managers, Messrs. Jar- Srst exhibition, carried out during British refuse to be beaten out of Thursday, April 11′ at 8:30 p.m. in dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, Pedder i the War, but the most important the market by the quantity of new the University Union Assembly Strest, Hong Kong, on Thursday, development is that the attitude of wares turned out by arms which Room. All interested are cordially 18th April, 1985, at Noon, for the industry has changed from aloof-bult their reputations with quite invited. "purpose" of receiving the Report of peas into persuasiveness. The calm other sorts of goods and different the Directors, passing the Accounts, reticence and self-satisfaction, born materials. and electing Directors and Auditors. of decades of supremacy The Transfer Books of the Com« | be" „discarded in the pany will be Closed from the 10th hurly-burly and selge April to the 1st May inclusive.
and while the By order of the Board,“
magnificent, it became The 1935 exhibition is JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LAZD.
of the determination with General Manager). British Industry has plunged Hong Kong. 3rd April, 1985.
the lion's share, and how the tendency of sales, fashions
THE INDO-CHINA' STEAM NAVIGATION, CO., LTD.
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ALLEGED AGITATOR
ARRESTED
The Opposition groups have thus once and for all forfeited the right to address on behalf of the Danzig population, any documents or complaints to aziy quarter what- soever,” states the proclaination which in conclusion emphasises - that the Danzig Government, rest- ing on the pillars of popular son- port, will continde its dinscult and responsible work of reconstruc
Franzosenn Kuo Min
(opyright); Stockholm April. 8.
The German Communist Fritz
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HEAVY FLOOD TOLL IN CALIFORNIA
Lesch whe
from rested
A All ladies who were supplied with
small collecting tins by the Wopelled men's Auxillary of, the Society for ascerta the Prefaction of Children last on
are requested to return same terr
Hospes, c/o the Helena May Institute, not later thân, Monday,
to In this Jubilee Year, as in former Var years, Her Majesty the Queen and other members of the Royal Family have played their usual generous part in helping to make the Bri Industries Fair success, and
ment on the great show o
ecessary, only to zepes
gets bet
Dance will be held at Bay Hotel this evening.
Ancramento," "April 9. Twenty four persons are dead na
the
of further torrential