ADVERTISEMENTS.
ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE:
TENDERS are invited for the supply of Painters and Scrapers (and Painting work), Caulkers (and Caulking work).
Forms of tender can be obtained at the Office of the Chief Constractor, H.M. DOCKYARD, Hong Kong and hould be filled in and returned, as indicated in Tender Form not later than Noon on Wednesday, 19th June, 1935.
35911
A. W. WATSON,
Chief Constructor.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG TON
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
IN THE GOODS OF ADELAIDE MARGARET NICHOLSON, LATE OF THE LITTLE HOUSL
IN THE
BROCK ROAD, SAINT PETER PORT, GUERNSET, CHANNEL ISLAND, SPINTER DECEASED..
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtas of the provisions of Section 3 of Ordin- "Race No. n 1897, made an order limiting the time for creditors and athers to send in their claims against the above ostale to 30TH JUNE, 1935, All Creditors and others are accord. ingly hereby required to send their aims to the undersigned on or before that date.
"
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Executrix,
1. Des Yeux Road Central,
Fong Kok
1238.4
PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTI
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ANNUAL ORDIN. ARY GENERAL MEETING of SBAREHOLDERS will be EELD at the HONGKONG' HOTEL, Hong Kong on TUESDAY, the 11th June, -1985, at 11.30 a.m, for the purpose of receiving the Reports of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th April, 1935,
The TRANSFER BOOKS. of, the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, 1st day of June, to "TUESDAY, the 11th day of Jane,
1985, both daya inclusive.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 23rd May, 1935.
WANTED
F3555
BIRTUS
·LOBEL--On Juze 10, at the War Memorial Nursing Home, Hong Kong, to Joyce, wife of F Lobel, a son. GRAHAM.—On June 4, 1935, at the
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1935.
CANTON NEWS
IN BRIEF
Paulun Hospital, Shanghai, to (From Our Special Correspondens) Freda, wife of Arnold Graham,
MARRIAGE
A son.
SHEKURY
Canton, June 10: Censorship of social news bėgins to-day by the Bureau of Social CARPI-On June 4.Affairs. All newspapers are required 1935, at The Ohel Moishe Syna- to send three coples of the same gogue, Shanghai, Mary, the story to the Censorship Bureau at youngest daughter of Mrs. and 27 Shang Kau East Road at noon the late Mr. A. S. Carpl, to Eric and from 7 p.m. The Bureau cen- Hay, elder son of Mrs. F. Ashtonsors all news pertaining to mil- and Johnson and the late Mr. G. Htary matters,
I Shekury, both of Shanghai ENGAGEMENT
VAN WINKLE-PEACH.-The en- gagement is announced of Charles W. Van Winkle, eldest
'
public safety
social news, that is matters ron cerning moral lapses, suicide, etc.
General Chan Tsal Tong, Com-
the mander-in-Chief
First Group Army. noticed that many son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Van leading newspapers here depended Winkle, of Santa Barbara, Calion sex stories as features by their fornia, and Vida Ann, daughter papers, and in the interest of pub- Be welfare the general suggested of Mrs. R. L. Feach and of late the presciption of such news. Ac Mr. Peach, of. Rockhampton.tual censorship of such stuff has Queensland.
begun since June 6, but from to- day censorship of such news is in the hands of the Bureau ni So- cial Affairs.
DEATHS
DANENBERG.--On June 4. 1935. at the Hungjao Sanitarium, Mario Jose Danenberg, aged 67 years. HALLEY-On May 23, 1935. in England, Margaret Maureen (Bobble) Halley (née Sparke) of pneumonia,
up" a good deal of sex stuff written Vernacular newspapers played
in a vivid vein in order to build up.circulation. There has been a censorship on military news and
political items, Now an additional censorship on social items is in- posed. With such efficient censor- ship, newspaper editors are freed
print and not to print. from the trouble of deciding what
AQUINO-On June 1, 1935, at the Shanghai General Hospital. Maria Josepha Marques, aged 62 years, the dearly-beloved wife of Joao Thoma's d'Aquino, LLOYD.-On June 4, 1935, at Craw-to ley Sussex England, John Alfred Lloyd, aged 19 years, the dearly beloved only son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd. LOBZOWSKI-Dr. E G. Lotzowski, age 45, died suddenly on June 4, 1935
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4!
Ku's European Tour High officials here who went to Hong Kong to say farewell to Mr.
Hu Han Min, former President of
the Executiye Yuan, returned here this morning. They included Mr.
Chow Lu, President of Sun Yat
Sen University. General LI Chung. Jen. Mayor Mu Chi Wen. Mr. Lari 11,Yick Chung. Provincial Comm's- stoner of Civil Affairs, Mr, Oi Fang Po. Provincial Finance, and others.
Commissioner of
Editorial and Business Office:
Ice House Street, Tel 30251, Night Editor (Wancha Omice)
Tel. 24511.
London Office: 53, Fleet Street
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
Bona Koxa, JUNE 11, 1935,
THE PERFECT BAT
There is considerable specula ton here concerning the motive or Mr. Hu's trip to Europe, "although it is conceded that he needs a change of location and surround- ing under medical advice. It is not known how long Mr. Hu wil be away. The Canton authorities are stated to have appropr.ated $100,000 for his travelling ex- penses.
ore Floods
Because of heavy rain all the towns along the East River are again flooded. Towns fauch -ES Shek Lung and Shek Tan along the Canton-Kowloon Rallway arc Although so much time, trouble also under two or three feet of and sometimes,unnecessary fuss is water. There is no danger to the spent over the choice of a cricket rallway, which is five or six feet bat, only fifty years ago the bat above the general level. The was either white or red and you worse places are along the upper chose the colour you fancied- ! reaches of the East River. Whichever seemed more likely to
The water in the West River re-
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CAPTAIN JAMES BANKS AND STORES IN
GOING HOME
Comrades Make Presentation
member
!!
DIFFICULTIES
Industrial Banks Close
Doors
Shanghai. June 5. As a result of financial dimeul- ties two small Chinese banks.
Shanghai, June-6. · With the departure of "Captain" G. F. Jamies to-morrow in the Conte Verde, another old China hand is retiring." Captain James will be accompanied by his wife. A veteran mariner on the China Coast, a veteran of the War, and neither of which had issued notes, together with, six Chinese stores, of the Shanghai Licensed Plots Association, Capt. suspended business yesterday, the James leaves under his physician's eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the three big orders and he will settle down in England, exactly where he does Chinese settlement days in the year. The financial situation was the topic of discussions late yester- day afternoon between a group of chinese bankers and Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance, who, in an Interview, assured continued financial aid for the relief or the market.
not know.
A most pleasing ceremony was held yesterday in the offices of the Pilots' Association in the Yangtsze Insurance Buliding, when members gathered to bid their comrade farewell. Captain W. R. Boyd, who presented Captain James with
The two Chinese banks are the a handsome set of cut glass de Ningpo Industrial Bank, 261 Nan- canters mounted) on behalf of king Road, of which Mr. Wu Chih the pilots, stressed the friendship Hou is the head, and the Klang which had existed between the in
nan Bank, 521. Honan Road. The personnel and their retiring com-, six stores, all promoted by Mr. Wu. rade. Since 1922, when Captain are the Shanghai Native Goods James became one of them, he Company. corner at Nanking and had established himself in their chill roads: Teh Tai, Pao Chen, and hearts, he said. They would feel Pao Tat ready-made clothes stores his loss and it went without sayin Klukläng and Shanal roads; the ing that one and all extended him Ten Fok ilk store in Hankow the heartfelt wish for a speedy Road; and the Hung Chang Chen recovery from his illness. Theylik store in
Small East Gate. sincerely regretted his impending While the Klangnan Bank will be departure, but wished himself and liquidated. an attempt is being Mrs. James happiness and perity, at Home. Were he ever to Industrial Bank
pros made to re-organize the Ningpo The Shanghai return to Shanghai members Native Goods Company and the would welcome him. With open
other stores, it is said, will go into liquidation.
arms,
V
Captain James Replies
SUMS ADVANCED Established last June with a Replying, Captain James regret- ted his leaving. He assured, them capital of $500,000, the Ningpo In- that, but for iness, he would still düstrial Bank opened branches in be among them in person. Though Soochow Quinsan Hangchow, in distant England. they might Tsingpo, Ningpo, and Shenkamen. rest assured that he would be with It had also three branches in them in spirit. He did not know Shanghai, at 1154-6 Broadway; settle 564-8 Avenue Joffre; and Tamatso, exactly where he would down. When permanently situat-Nantao. It was reported that the ed, he would inform them, and, bank had advanced large sums of A run extending a hearty invitation to money to the six stores. those on leave to visit with them started following the failure of the and talk over old times, he thank-institution to advance money to two
ed the members for their many depositors who kept fixed accounts the with it, resulting in its closure yes- previous kindnesses and for handsome departing remembrance, terday. ... Captain James arrived in China in 1909, joining the Indo-China Mr. Yui Hwa Loong and Mr. Wang
S.N. Co., and at the time he left for the War, he was Master of a vessel. Holding the rank of
in the leutenant
Royal Naval Reserve, Captain James returned to Shanghai in 1919. and resumed service with his firm. Since 1922. he has been associated with the
make the dream of hitting one ceped in the early part of last Shanghai Licensed Plots' Associa over the church come true. Red week bu; has risen again. Shlution.
or white, however, they were both hing and Samshui are under two willow and capable of tidy drives feet of water.
though the ruddy sort were per
of its complexion
TEN SILK FILATURES. RESUME WORK
Operatives Demonstrate At. Chapei Factory
1%
A capable European gentleman
with Capital $15,000 to take haps a trifle heavier and needed over and run for himself a coastal more oll. Whatever what might up-to-date hotel, having two years have been the "correct thing to standing and yielding a net profit of do" in the far of days, to buy a from $4,000/36,000 annually. Good rat because prospect for immediate expansion. would now be pathetically old Alternative terms may be considered, fashioned. Instead one might in- in which case applicant must furnish quire the county of origin what a minimum cash guarantee of $2,000 soll was the mother to the tree, with the local Consul's recommenda- whether the wood had been cosset-
Shanghai, June 6. Applicants to communicate ed from frost and set beyond in cerns resume work to-day follow- When Chinese industris) con- through their respective Consulate, jury by cattle, and whether the Kulangsu, Amoy, China,
cleft" elected was arm and be-
ing one day's suspension in obser [3579
vance of the Dragon Boat Festival yond reproach. To put the matter in a nutshell, since science has there will be seventeen flatures operating in Chapel and Nantao, come a twelfth man Into the game, one could devise a regular with a total complement of 7,370 hands Instead of seven. The additional ten filatures have re-
tion.
CALL CHINA UNDERWRITERS LIMITED.
TOTICE is hereby given that a NOT
call of $1.00 per share has been made upon all members holding shares upon which $4.00 per share only has been already paid, and that
1985.
Dated 31st May, 1985.
catecrusm. Had the "watermark"
of
opened during the past few days.
Of the five silk fillatures in the Settlement, only one is operating, with 480 hands.
LITTLE FUKIEN BOY
Whose Bite Kills
1;
In a notice issued by two lawyers,
NEWS SUMMARY
A larceny which occurred three months ago was brought to light at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when Wong Sul Ham, an unemploy- ed Chinese was charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones with the theft of clothing and other articles at 222. Ma Tau Wal Road, and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. Page 6
Tsu Hsiung, it was announced that When a Chinese of no fixed abode the bank had been compelled by was charged before Mr. Wynne- Enancial diiculties temporarily to Jones at Kowloon Magistracy yes- suspend business. The bank will terday with the theft of clothing re-open as soon as funds are avail- and jewellery from a junk which was anchored of the Yaumati able. The two lawyers have been entrusted with the task of iquidat-Typhoon Shelter, the defendant ing the five stores,
was given a term of six "weeks' in Page 8.
While its father was giving evi- `
The Klangnan Bank was estab-gaol. shed thirteen years ago, with a pald-up capital of $500,000. The board of directors, headed by Mr, Yueh Chun Tung. decided to susdence in Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday, a little child was seen to be playing with the copy of the Bible which was in the Court Room. Mr. Wynne-Jones ordered the book glass paper weight to to be taken away but lent his own the child which was delighted with its new toy
Page &
pend business on Monday night, following a run on the bank's Soo- chow branch. A notice was issued, announcing the liquidation of the
institution and urging all creditors and debtors to register with Mr. Eugene Y. B. Klang and Mr. Shen Kia Ching, lawyers, within a period of fourteen dayı.
BANKERS' MEETING
in
R. ES. Wyatt, the Warwickshire
A meeting of a group of Chinese captain who hurt his thumb when bankers and Dr. H. H. Kung, Ministe took the last M.C.C. team to the West Indies has been invited to ter of Finance, was held in the
captain the. England. XI. in the Central Bank, yesterday afternoon,
Test match against the South -when the question of extending a
Africans which is due to start on loan of $25,000,000 in 1935 Cur- Saturday. Altogether twelve play-
ers have been invited to attend."
rency Bonds to native banks was further discussed. It was reported. that arrangements had been com-
pleted for exchanging the bonds with the Government." banks for cash at a discount.
Interviewed after the conference, Dr. Xung stated that delegates would be appointed by the Minis- try to investigate the condition of the native banks which have closed down recently. Should any abuse be found in the administration or business dealings of these banks, the responsible persons would be held until such time as they could square their accounts. He em- phasized that the Ministry would continue to aid banking institu- tions and urged the people to take special care in depositing their money.
Mr. Li Ming, Mr. K. P. Chen, Mr. Churtong Yih, Mr. Tsuyee Pel, Mr. Jian Chen, Mr. Fi Teh Mou, Mr. Pi Kiang Hu, and Mr. Chang Pet Shun were among those who at- tended the conference.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
H.M. submarine Parthian left the Colony yesterday for Wel-hal-wel.
The Indian sik merchants of
Hong Kong have issued an appent for subscriptions to a fund for the relief of the victims of the Quetta earthquake. Donations may be sen either to the offices of the "China Mall," or direct to Messrs. Wassiazui Assamul!, No. 48. Queen's Road.
Three men made a forced entry to a house in Kam Chin village, Sheung Shu! district, New Terri- torles, at 2.a.m. yesterday, and rob- bed a married woman, Cheung Tal,
Little boys who bite are never nice to know but little boys, and even big boys, whose bites result in people dying, are undoubtedly znost reprehensible. That is the reason why everyone in the city of Chuanchow in Fukien is so deter- mined to put a certain little boy of only seven years to a speedy of money, jewellery and clothing death If all reports are true, the to the total value of $98. The po- otherwise peaceable and obscure lice are still investigating the case, every but no arrests have yet been re- people of Chuanchow have reason for their fierce resolution. ported.
the story is a little weird and not As reported in the Chinese press.
a little unbelievable but it may be that the lad is only a freak of na- ture and cannot help himself.
disease, so troublesome a few years ago, depopulated the earth willows, we mas be sure that science would have devised for the cricketer what has been granted
A minor incident occurred outside ¦ However, in appearance the boy 18 the golfer, namely an all-steel in- strument for lashing the ball. the Yung Cheng silk filature, Tien sald to be as extraordinary as his And would not be brilliantly Dong Road, Chapel, on Tuesday baneful habit,
afternoon, when the operatives,
as a protest against the refusal of the management to increase their front of wages, demonstrated in
I
RESEMBLES APE
White ants are stated to be res❘ ponsible for the collapse of the roof of
at 343 a motor garage Castle Peak Road early on Satur- day morning. In a report made to the Shamshuipe police, Shui Ki, motor dealer of 168 Fuk Wing Street, stated that damage WECK caused to two buses and à motor cycle, No person was injured.
The lad resembles a baby ape and his ferocity first became ap- parent when he bit two relatives who came
Whilst working on the new Shau- to visit his parents. kiwan Road. an earth coolte, These two people, the first in A series, died the next day. This named Ngan King-san, aged 26 was unfortunate but the boy also years, was crushed to death when bit a neighbour's
son who also a large rock fell on him. Deceased died the next day. The unnaturai lived at the Choi Lee Contractors' child's father now became extre- matshed. mely alarmed and put his son in
the same will be payable to the spectacular to watch Hammond or who struck work in the afternoon Bankers of the Company, Hoog Bradman making havoc with a Kong & Shanghai Banking Corpora fery broadsword? As that ha tion, at Queen's Road Central, Hong | not proved recessary, however, Kong on or before the 8th September, research has continued to give an the factory and refused to allow encouraging band to nature, and the quest proceeded for a willow any employee to enter: They were
to persuaded return home, by ranre tough, elastic, unsplinterable amion representatives. and meet for the King of Games,
It has been known for sometime cerns in the
The following industrial con- Settlement which now that the true "Caerulea" is suspended work during the week- 18577 the right kind of willow for cricket end owing to trate depression, are bats, but there was always a chance not expected to resume: Sz Sing of the grower discovering after a silk weaving factory. 488 Welhal-
his later. Next morning, however,dicts arrested and executed and the zen years or so, that his trees wel Road: the Ming Sing all the cage proved how inadequate amount of drugs seized during the were not of the precise sträin and weaving factory, Lane 833, No. it was to hold such a ferce little last few years, have been made scarcely worth as many pence as Thorburn Road; Tseng Dah rubber boy, for the lad had escaped.
By Order of the Board of Directors, HERBERT, R. STUET.
Managing Director.
1,328,698; and other narcotics, 7,209,482 ounces.
Page 10.
Mr. Hu Han Min, the veteran Chinese politician, left the Colony on the ss. Conte Verde for Italy on Sunday and when he was inter- viewed by the Press prior to his de- parture, he explained that his trip was purely in the nature of a "health" one and that he may be away for years.
Page 7.
MACLEAN AND
MACLAINE
From The Same Family
(Special Air Mail Service)
Two days
London, May 25, after the centenary celebrations of Bir Fitzroy Mac- lean of Duart, his relative, Mac- laine of Lochbuie, has died, writes
correspondent.
:
Sir Fitzroy is the head of the plan. Lochbule was head of a
branch. Though juntor
they
they were descended from bro- names differently. spelled their
Mr. E. C. Robinson has arrived in Tientsin to join Mr. C. W. L. Way in the Manufacturers Life In-
thers. the elder of whom held | sürance Co. Mr. Robinson has been
Duart in the fourteenth century. 23 years in China having come out
Lochbuie marches with Duart, for the Asiatic Petroleum Company.in the Isle of Mull. It was sold with which concern he served un-
away from t the end of last year, having been in charge of many of their years ago. branch offices along the Yangtze, at Hangchow, Nanking, Wuhu and Chungking.
The density of the population in Italy is given as 133 inhabitants to the square kilometre, which is very high for an agricultural country with mountainous regions,
the Maclaines
some
The Maclaine who has just died was Mr. Kenneth Douglas Lorne Maclaine. It was his father who irst adopted the style."the 'Mac- laine of Lochbule."
On one occasion, when he had signed himself thus in an hotel visitors' book, a facetious friend who was staying at the same hotel signed his 0
name under-
street."
The China Association are hold-neath: The Jones of 24, Pont ing a reception on Monday, June 24, at Grosvenor House, Park Lane,
London, and members have been
asked to make the date of the re- ception known to friends on leave from China or interested in China, in order that there may be a big attendance.
LISTER 'MEDAL FOR SIR R. MUIR
(Special Air Mafi Service)
Glasgow, May 25. The Lister Medal for 1936, which is awarded in recognition of dis- tinguished contributions to aur
LAIRD IN THE LIMELIGHT
1 knew Kenneth Maclaine... when he was in the 15th Bussars He was a charming personality. with one weakness-an ambition
to
Bo on the stage, which, un- fortunately, was not-matched by a talent for acting.
And he went on the music- halla I recall his departure for New York at the opening of his stage career. Sympathetic friends saw him off in force. The Duke of Argyll sent his pipers to play the Maclaine on board the liner.
SILENT RECEPTION.
It was a magnificent departure, and the reception in New York; a cage, quite determined to kill Statistics on the number of ad-gical science, has been granted to so far an the newspaper reports Sir Robert Muir, MD, FR.S., were concerned, was magnificent
the also. Professor of Pathology in
public by the National Anti-Oplüm
LOCAL MAPS he had hoped to pocket Pounds factory, 884. Thorburn Road; and Some days later a woodcutter Committee in Nanking. During the
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Nanking.
WAS
University of Glasgow, and he will Only the Buorence deliver the Lister Memorial Lec¬ sympathetic. • The Maclaine's ture in 1938 at the Royal College "turn" was received in an un-
broker and devastating silence." Now, thanks to the efforts of the the printing department of the brought the boy home describing past year 263 optum and drug- of Surgeons of England.
This is the Afth occasion of the Later I saw the performance Imperial Forestry Institute, there Industrial and Training Co., 985 that he had been found
crying addicts arrested in is hope at last of detecting the ward Rand. Approximately 400 bitterly in the hills near by. That Shanghai, Peiping. Hankow and award, which is made by a com- in London. There, too, it was re- mittee representative of the Royal ceived with apathy except by an useless sorts of willow in infancy. hands were affected.
night the ungrateful child bit the seven other provinces, were execat- kindly woodcutter who, next morn-ed. In Pelping, Shanghal and Society, the Royal College of Bur enthusiastic box-ful of Maclaine's
geons of England, the Royal Col- friends irg. duly died: The killer is Nanking alone 6,820 persons were
Maclaine, however, persisted, trived to raise willow from seed, has
again at liberty roaming the hills arrested in connection, with nar-lege of Surgeons in Ireland, the newly planted seven hundred seed-matically sorrows the bowler with outside Chuanchow and the po- cotics, including 0,137 opium-smok University of Edinburgh, and the and for years toured the smaller University of Glasgow, It is now music-halls of the land, where fe lings out of which may arise the a six; and one imagines the head-pulation of the city are determiners. During the past three years perfect bat. That it wil eventual- lines of to-morrow: "M.C.C. Emer-ed to rid themselves of this little the Customs made the following exactly 75 years since Lister be found audiences more apprecia
those in London and NONCKONO DAILY PRESS. 17 arrive there is not the slightest geney Session-County Captains terror who has so, put the fear of seizures: oplam 82,617,703 ounces: came Professor of Surgery in the tive than New York doubt the bat that almost auto- Demand Triangular Ball."
heroin, 1.745,568 ounces; morphine. University or Glasgow,
At Long Ashton, near Bristol, Mr.
Victoria,
H. P. Hutchinson, who has con-
New Territories.
death in them.