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NOTICE.
THE BRITISH - AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. (CHINA) LTD. beg to advise that owing to the recent heavy increase in duty on all Tobacco products they are reluctantly compelled to advance the wholesale and retail prices of Cigarettes and Tobaccos marketed by them.
Hong Kong, 4th December, 1935.
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HONG KONG BREWERS AND DISTILLERS, LTD.
NOTICE OF CREDITORS' MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that a Meeting of the Creditors of the Hong Kong Brewers & Distillers Limited, will be held at the offices of the Company at No. 7, Duddell Street, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong, on the 11th day of December, 1935, at 1.80 p.m.. o'clock in the afternoon for the purpose mentioned in Sections 227, 228 and 229, of the Companies Ordinance 1932.
Dated the 28th day of November, 1938,
By Order of the Board,
E. M. BARRETT,
Secretary.
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NOTICES OF REMOVAL
8 from the 1st of December,
A for, the Offers Furnesss (Far East) Ltd., will be at the Hong Kong & Shanghai Basking Corporation Building, 2nd Floor, Telephone 23155.
NOTICES OF REMOVAL
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BIRTH
JOHANNESSEN-At War Memorial
Hospital on December 3, 1035,
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to Iris (nee Hay-Edlo) wife of
Mr. Reidar Johannessen, a son, John Edward Hay-Edis
DEATHS
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DE ALMEIDA-On November 27, 1935, in Lisbon, Noemie Maria, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. de Almelda. BERTHELOT-On November 25, 1935, at Ste. Marie's Hospital, Shanghai, Camille Alexis, aged 55 years.
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HUNG KONG, DECEMBER 4, 1938.
M. LAVAL'S VICTORY
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M. Laval's first victory a few days ago leads us to indulge in retrospec- tion of the recent events in French political circles. It will be remem-
bered that the French Chambers adjourned on June 30 after re fuctantly arming M. Laval and his Government with authority to Issue decree-laws until October 31,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1935.
THREAT TO OVERTHROW NEWS SUMMARY
NEWS SUMMARY JAPANESE ACTION IN
THE GOVERNMENT
Serious Party Battle In France
(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press")
(By Tatsgraph,· Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinanca, 1491. Received, December 3, 7.30 pm)
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Paris, December 1
Tense excitement prevailed in the Chamber on Tuesday noon, when the long awaited debate on Fasalat Unlons began" on the demand of the Left Wing parties, who declare that they will be satisfied with nothing less that the prompt dissolution of all Right Wing organisations, and above all the "Firó Crossers.” If this demand is not complled with the Left Wingers are prepar- ed to overthrow the Laval Government.
The first interpellator, M. Bamette of the Communists, in a long and fiery speech attempted to prove that all Right Wing or- ganisations were hostile to the State. The speaker admitted that his most cherished wish was the dissolution of the "Fire Crossers”, ‚which” the Left Wingers agreed were a particularly dangerous and powerful organisation. The so-called private meetings of this organisation sala the speaker really amounted to military inve- sions.
Ramette laid all the blame for The paper asserts that at an the upheavals at Limoges at the upheaval at Limoges
DTO. door of the "Fire Crossers”. and fessional revolutionary" of a went so far as to say that. Premier foreign nationality was shot dead. Laval was really responsible be- but the matter was hushed up on cause the Cabinet is a confederate the order of the Socialist Mayor of of the "Fire Crossers,”
Limoges.-
the Radical Socialist Deputy, re-
The next speaker, M, Guermount, } Tränancean Kuo Min,'
proached the Government for tolerating the provocation of the Right Wing organisation, so that the Government to-day no longer commands the, confidence of its
ceeding.
FATE IN BALANCE
Paris, Dea 3. The fate of the Governmenta future and M. Lavil's peace efforts to defend the results of the debate in the Chamber
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Such edicts require no Parliamen-friends--The debate is still pro- the Premier's plans to curb the
tary legislation; they bear in them- selves the full facts of the law.
Nevertheless, the Chambers
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Fran men were arrested by. Revenue Officers... yesterday board the "steamer Fukulin Maru when they were attempting to ex- port allver bullion from the Colony to Formosa.
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An interesting lecture was, de- livered by Mr. H. O. Macnamara at the English Association yester day. He chose for his subject "Blackstone." An secount of the meeting appears on Page 10.
The first serial of the lecture is Page 11.
The fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board was held yesterday when three applications for esting house licences were refused.
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An Interesting article en Amoy A Decade Ago and Now-appears oh