NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONG KONG CLUH.
NOTICE.
THE Ninety
Second Yesray General Meeting of the Mom- bers of the Hong Kong Club will be held in the Club House on THURS DAY, the 26th March, 1996, at 1.80 P.M.
By Order,
S. R. KERR
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 17th March, 1936,
HONG KONG CLUB
NOTICE.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
No
DOCK CO., LTD,
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yourly Meeting of Sharebolders will be held 2 in the Office of the Company, Queen's. Building, Hong Kong, on Monday, 30th March, 1936, at Noon, for, consideration of the Directors" Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1985.
The Share Register and Tranefer Books will be closed from the 21st to 30th March, 1936, both days i inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors
E: COCK,
S
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 12th March, 1936.
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THE Second Yearly Drawing of T4 Debentures (1934 -1808- $500. each) of the Hong Kong Club, payable on Wednesday, the 30th September, 1396, will be held in the Club House at 10 o'clock, a m, ou Monday, the 30th March, 1936.
Bearers of Debentures are invited to attend Drawing.
By Ordar,
ST. PATRICK'S DAY TUESDAY. 17 MARCH,
1936.
Wreath will be laid at the A Coustaph by the President and Committee of St. Patrick's Society of Hong Kong at.11.30 A.M.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1936.
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Hoyo KONG, MArch 17, 1936.
BRITAIN'S HISTORIC
HOUSES
PRESENT CRISIS
IN EUROPE
French Press Views On Situation
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daly Press (Copyright.)]
LINCOLNSHIRE AND. GRAND NATIONAL
Probables And Latest Betting
London, Mar. 16. The following are the probable starters and jockeys in the colnshire Handicap to be run March 25.- Sea Bequest"
Paris, March 5. Premier Flandin's speech at the League Council meeting on Satur- day is unanimously welcomed as a clear and convincing exposition of the French point of view by the Paris Sunday papers, which also devote considerable space" to the Boethias.. question of whether Germany will accept the invitation to attend the League Council session in London
on Monday.
the
The charm of any countryside is not merely that of its meadows. trees, streams, hills and shaded lanes, but of its inhabited dwell- ings-old cottages, the large coun-
The "Echo de Paris" states that try houses, and the crowning glory
important of the major mansions, the splen-Saturday marks an
Locarno dld ancestral homes set in the turning point in
Powers' deliberations." Making a surroundings of timbered parks.
The genius of the English peodetailed comparison of the French architecture, and British points of view, the pa- domestic ple in
per states that the latter makes a manifested in the Afteenth, six- teenth, seventeenth, eighteenth distinction between the juridicia) and early nineteenth century, has position and political expediency. found no nobler expression than Should the British Government be such able to induce France to take this in the aristocratic houses 25 Castle Howard, Chatsworth.view, it would be prepared to en- security pact with Knowle or Arundel Castie. Some ter intö
France and promise military sun- of these mansions are now unin habited. Parts of the surrounding parks of others have been sold for
a
port in the event of further "dis- appointments" at the French bor-
By the kind permission of Lieut: Colonel R. M. Rodwell and Officers, the Band of 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles will be present and the building, to enable the owners to der. Secretary.
Last Post" and "Reveille" will be sounded by Bugiers
of the Regiment.
S. R. KERR,
Hong Kong, 16th March, 1988.
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"THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
HE Sixty-seventh
Ordinary
General Meeting of Share. holders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Friday, the 27tb March, 1936, at Noon, for the pur pose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a statement of Accounts for the year
ended the 31st December, 1935.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 18th
inclusive.
Members of the Society and their friends are asked to co-operate by assembling on the North side of the Supreme Court at 11.15 A.M. B. H. C. HALL WES, HON, Bro. ST. PATRICK'S SOCIETY OF HONG KONG.
TITE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
Law Court adni The Blue Boy Bow and Arrow
Jovial Lad
Lin-
on
(E. Smith). Wrickaby)
(Marshal
(Strett)
LATEST BETTING
25/1 Jovial Lad t. und o. 33/1 Hidalgo t Reuter
GRAND NATIONAL
- vir
The following are the acceptori (Jones) for the Grand National to be run
on March 27:- (Taylor)
Golden Miller' Reynolds own Avenger
(Lane) (May.an)
(F. Hunter)
Double Crassed
Castle Irewell
(Ca dwe!) | Delanelge
Hidalgo Yorkshiremari River Seven Cabinteely Adriatic Svndford Bridga Overcoat Lordling Kinjaal Screamer Clematis Man's Pal
(Gordon R chardз) (Nevett)
Tom. Bow ing Princess Herodene Laurent II Red Raider" Trapster Coldron Madame Tabouls, the foreign st. Boto.ph maintain the remainder. Unless
for *T*-
"Blue Brocade steps are soon taken, these edi-political correspondent
Oeuvre," on the other hand, takes Akela fices, one after another, may stand untenanted (like Montacute House, the view that the situation in Lon-Braemar the property of the late Lord Cur- don is more complicated and dim- Greek Abbot
Paul- Daysight zon), or will be converted into life-cult. If Flandin and M.
Boncour had not put up such ener-Silver Bow getic resistance, she asserts, France Layman would have been implicated, in Samzy which the value of the interna-Lockholme tional law and the declarations of Golden Bow
would the
Government
less museums.
perty.
Weston) Bagatelle II
(Fox)
Brienz
(C.. Richards) Oeulideboeuf
(Vergette) Blue Prince
(Ryan)
Remua .......
K. Robertson)
Persian Bun
(Dines)
Bachelor Prince
Buckthorn
Inversible
Provocative
(Doyle) (Middleton) (Barber)
The Boy in Blue Hillsbrook
1H Robertson) (Couch) (H Foster)
(Jacques) | Ego
Kilto.
(W'ng) Davy Jones .... (Ho mes) Uncle Batt (Thompson) | Richborough (D. Smith) | Lazy Boots
(Sharp) Moorland View
(Sharplea) Rathfriland
(Mitchell) Emancipator
NEWS SUMMARY
In a chicken stealing case at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, near- ly an hour was spent in taking the pleas of the six prisoners involved. .. Page 5.
A story of unrequited love, which led to the stabbing of a young widow, was told at the Criminal Sessions yesterday when the trial of Lam Siu-cho, 25, on a charge of maliciously wounding, with, intent to maim or disable, Siu Lai-chan, 23-year old widow, at Happy Valley on January 8, was commenced be- tore Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, Acting Chlef Justice. .Page 3..
Appearing before Mr. W. Scho field. at the Central Magistracy yesterday on a charge of driving (E. Williams)orry No. 1301, in Gloucester Road (Mr. Alwyn) en Sunday night, while under the influence of liquor, Lo Wah, driver, was fined $25, in default a month's hard labour.
Page 6.
(Rimeu) (Jones)
(Mr. Bostwick) .... (Moloney) [Scratchley)
Wilson or Kidney sentenced to
·
Li Man, 20, unemployed. was one month's hard (Burford) | labour and was ordered to pay $8
(Parvin)
amends to Tsui Sal-fau, aged 13. (Magee) boy, when he appeared before Mr. (Viiniall Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- with
(Fawcetracy
yesterday, charged ((Capt. Harding) stealing from the complainant a (McGrath) | pair of jade ear-rings mounted. (Hamey) with gold, by means of a false (Mr. Vaux) pretence.
Page B
.(O'Grady)
.(T. Carey)
*
"The trial of Lo Ching and Wong (Mr. Llewellyn) Kan for possession of coining (Hon. Mildmay) moulds and counterfeiting imple- (Mr. Petre) ments was commenced before "Mr. (Watson) Justice J. J. Hayden, Acting Puishe (Capt. Moseley) | Judge, at the Criminal Sessions"
(Fitzgerald) yesterday. (Mr. Jackson)
Page 1.
(Mr. Gazalet) At the Central Magistracy yes- (E. Curtis) Brown Brother (Capt. Fanshawe?terday, Mr. W. Schofield delivered (A. Sharp'es) Pencraik Thelo. Priok. Hot Fight. Mistral Castle View II. Ramades. Rodeo I. Previous Ascetic Pride Pearl. Royal Flush, Spasm, Desert | Battling St Cloud, Liscioon, have not yet been Deyncourt
Crown Prince al'otted jockeys.
Coolavach Comedian
Through the operation of estate duties, each new heir, as he comes Into the property, is required to pay a heavy tax on the whole of
French [4285 his estate, of which the house is
an unremunerative part, and so have been destroyed. Ands himself less able than his
Blaming England for the present predecessor to maintain his pro-crisis among the Locarno powers, that the correspondent states apart from Mardin's restrained
THE CALL-OVER speech on Saturday, it was very
The following is to-day's disappointing since the impression prevailed that the League Council over for the Lincolnshire: had been influenced by the ques-100/8 Law Court o. tions of political expedier.cy..
100/8 Screamer o. 13/1 L 100/8 Priok o. 100/7 t.
13/1 Bea Bequest t. and o. 13/1 Boethius t. and 0.
HAFT Programmes and Entry
HAR Forms for the Second
The National Trust (in which is vested the ownership of many his toric houses beautiful country) is deeply con- cerned about the matter, but has cot the resources to shoulder the whole burden. Moreover, it is of
and stretches of
the essence of the problem that
In the opinion of the "Petit
Extra Race Meering, co be held un 1936, SATURDAY, 28th March, (weather permitting), may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange to the 27th March, 1936, both days Building; the Club House, Happy these mansions should not merely Farisien," the French Government
Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the JARDINE, MATHESON&Co., LTD. Sports Club and the Stables. Bhan
Kwong Road.
Entries close at 1 o'coex NOON on THURSDAY, 19th March, 1936,
By Order,
General Managers, THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1936.
THE
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HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.. DEBENTURËS
TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
NTEREST for the six months ending 31st MARCH, 1936, on the above DEBENTURES will be payable at the OFFICES of the COMPATY-ON THAT DATE.
THE REGISTER OF DEREN- TURES will be closed from MON. DAY, the 23rd MARCH, to MONDAY, the 30th MARCH, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of DEBENTURES can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
O. EAGER,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1936.
NOTICE.
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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN
MORTGAGE COMPANY,
NOTI
LIMITED..
C. R. BROWN,
83cretary
BRITISH JOURNALIST
RELEASED
Arrested During Tokyo Uprising
for.
be maintained, with their art trea- sures intact, but that they should be "lved in and intimately cared For it is the character and charm of a house "that it shoul! be, not a museum, but 2 home. Yet can the state justly be asked to remit taxation to a property owner that he may continue in enjoyment of his house? Only on one condition-that he maintains his property well, and shares it with the public, admitting the lat ter on certain days to view the halls, chambers and galleries.
famous
20/1 Lordling t and 0. 25/1 The B'ue Boy t. and o. 25/1 Cabinteely o 28/1 t. 33/1 Yorkshireman
intends to put forward the pro-100/ Overcoat t. and 0. posal that the whole matter be put up to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which would have to decide, whether the ratification of the Franco-Russian: Pact, which Germany takes as Justification for the reoccupation of the demilitarised zone. Justines this action by the German (lov- ernment.-
iraniacean News Service,
PRESS OPINION IN BRITAIN
35/1 Hidalgo t. and . 40/1 Spasm 0.
45/1 Jovia Lad i, and o
call- Rod and Gun
EARL BEATTY'S FUNERAL
Defence Services Participate
(Lyon) (Owen) Mr. Dennistoun) (Mr. Jessop) (P. Carey) (Mr. Strutt) (Isaar) (Turner) (Skyzme) Keen Bade
(Elder) Evasiomon (Mr. Hol and Martin) "(Hook) Lynton Zag
(Capt. Prior Palmer! Blaze..
.....(Piggott) Royal Ransom. Cooleen, Broad- was and Alexana have not yet been allotted jockeys.
THE CALL-OVER 61 Golden Miller o. 13/2 t.. 100/15 Reynoldstown t. and o 10/1 Avenger t and o 18/1 Castle Irewell t. and o. 28/1 Lazy Boots o. 33/1
GERMAN WORKERS ON CRUISE
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press (Copyright.)?
Approximately
Hamburg, Mar. 15.
5,000 workers from all parts of Germany left here on Sunday for a fortnight's
to Lisbon holiday voyage
and first trip is the
| Madeira. This
Judgment convicting Sher Moham- ed, an Indian guard on a charge of having committed an indecent assault on a six-year-old girl, Lam Mui, on the third floor of No, 15 Landale Street, on January 22, sentenced .defendant £0 twelve months' hard labour. Page 8.
Imperial Airways (Far East) Ltd. announces that final approval has been received for the operation of a commercial air service between Hong Kong and Penang, following, the route, established by the re- cently completed series of experi- Page 7. mental flights.
Widespread regret will be felt at the death, which occurred at the War Memorial Hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning, of. Mr. C. E. La ("Peter") Grist, well-known- lawyer of the firm of Wilkinson and Grist.
The funeral took place in the evening and was largely attended.
Page 7.
LOCAL AND
GENERAL
Here the example of France may help. Some days ago a re- ception was given by the National Tokyo, Mar. 18.
Trust at which the Duc de Noallies Mr. Gerald Samson, a British spoke of the work of "La Demeure
London, Mar. 18. writer, who was arrested during Historique" of France, an organi- the Tokyo
The German reply to the League army revolt and has zation by means of which entrance of Nations' invitation to attend
London, March 16. been in custody slice Februaryfres paid by visitors to
the London conferences will be
The funeral of the late Admiral 28, was released Saturday after chateaux have provided funds for greeted with an outburst of dis-of the Fleet, Lord Beatty, took undertaken this year under the Admiral Earl Beatty, whose funer- noon.
maintenance. It is suggested that appointment. Herr Adolf Hitler place to-day and the burial place auspices a similar co-operative scheme
should further define his second is in the crypt of St. Paul's be- "Strength through Joy." and will should be adopted in Britain and condition, declares the "Times" side the grave of Lord Jellicoe, be followed by many other similar that the Government should be
whom Lord Beatty succeeded, in i cruises to the Atlantic Islands and command of the Grand Fleet | Norwegian Fjords.
The organisation bought four during the War.
He left for Kobe immediately, the police having arranged for his passage on Sunday by the Naga saki Maru for Shanghal-
Router.
JAPANESE ACTIVITIES IN FUKIEN
Authorities Perturbed
Shanghai, Mar. 16,
asked to remit some at least of the duties to owners of scheduled dwellings who undertook to open them to the public.
AMERICAN VIEW OF GERMAN ART
to-day.
If his interpretation is that Ger- many should be permitted to at- tend the Council as a partner in deliberations intended to preclude the breaking of treaties in the future, by strengthening the treaty system, then it is a rational inter- pretation of the League's function. It cannot seem that French security would profit by refusal to negotiate or contemplate a new Locarno pact, which Herr Hitler proposes, the paper adds.
The "Daily Telegraph " and "Morning Past" declare the Ger- man reply is an acceptance that amounts to a refusal and has caused bitter disappointment. Germany, they say, is losing a golden opportunity
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
New York, Mar. 16. A Chinese press despatch states At the instigation of the Karl that the authorities in Fukien ax2 Sehurz Society, Professor Arthur very much perturbed over the con- Burkhardt, of Harvard University, &tinued activities of Japanese and delivered a lecture on German art of ELIL unemployed Formosans in the sea-scen
the eyes through ports of the province,
Burkhardt, who has American. It is stated that the number of written a book on the art of apparently Indigent Formosans Mathias Gruenewald, drew a com- TOTICE is bereby given that the has recently increased to 16.000 at parison between the pictures THIRTY NINTH ORDIN- Amoy and that 1,500 are at pre-painted at the time of the Re- ARY ANNUAL MEETING of Lent in Foochow.
The "Daily Mirror" perceives formation in Germany and in Italy Shareholders in the Company will be
They are alagedi ngaged in during the Renaissance. He com- that the situation has reached its held in the Jacobean Room, 1st floor, dangerous activities.-
pared Gruenewald with Perrugino, gravest crisis since the German Hong Kong Hotel, Pedder Street, Keuter.
the Rhine- Duerer with Raphael and Horgiane, troops marched into Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 27th
In order to show the national land, but the vital fact is that MARCH, 1936, at 12.30 p.mi. for the
characteristics 01 German and leaders and peoples want peace. purpose of Receiving a Statement of
Italian art.
The "Daily Mail" comments that Accounts and the Report of the
The southern artists airded at each day gained renders the Board of Directora for the year ended
an idealised, peaceful smoothness, maintenance of peace more prob- December 81st., 1985, Electing
a measured representation of per-able. Directors and Auditors, and for the
fect form, transaction of any other Ordinary business of the Company
CENTRAL SAVINGS SOCIETY
Shanghai Ceremony
Shanghai, Mar. 18.
As a mark of respect to the late
of the organisation, at took place yesterday, warships
in harbour flew their flags at half-
mast from 8 am to sundown.
P
St. Patrick's Day, which falls
The funeral procession, in which steamers, and placed an order for to-day, will be observed by the His Majesty the King was repre- the construction of a fifth, for the Hong Kong St. Patrick's Society sented by the Duke of York, express purpose of affording the by the laying of a wreath on the formed on Home Guards Parade, German workers an opportunity Cenotaph at 11.30 am. The band way of the to make sea voyages at a minimum of the 1st Batta Royal Ulster and marched by Admiralty Arch via the Thames cost, in accordance with the Cer- Rifles will be present, and the embankment to St. Paul's, con- tingents from all defence Services taking part in the procession.--- British Wireless.
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GERMAN DIESEL MOTORS FOR AUSTRALIA
Railway Experiment. "Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)
HAR Labour Front's unique scheme of providing workers with the fullest possible means of en- joying their holidays.
It was announced to-day rat
"Last Post" and "Reveille" will
Regiment." be sounded by the buglers of that
Admitted to the Kowloon Hos-
mill at which he was at work was started by another toki.
this year po less than 160.000 pital on Sunday suffering from take part in these multiple injuries as a result of an Green Island workers wil cruises. The ́eader of the Ger- accident at the man Labour Front. Dr. Robert Cement Company, Lo Sang, a coo- le, died about 8 pm. The deceas the holiday bidding Ley, in
eá received his injuries when a makers good bye, stated that no- thing characterises the new trend to Germany better that the fact German workers are now able to visit foreign countries as repro- It is reported that the Australian Railways intend to make an ex-sentatives of Germany and mes-
l'ransocean News Service. periment that will affect all dwell-sengers of her goodwill- ers in the Bush, and it is intended to improve all trans-continental services. It has been announced that the building of the longest lesel railway in the world is now under construction. Since the In-
Sydney, Mar. 16.
POWER PLANT FOR SUMATRA
One case of Small-Pox, LORE cases of Diphtheria, one imported, two cases of Enteric Fever, and three cases of Cerebro-Spinat Fever were reported to the Health Authorities for the 48 hours end- ed on Sunday,
NAVAL TREATY UNDER PREPARATION
while the Germans The "Daily Herald" asserts that dian. Government successfully i seized upon a kind of natural ex- Herr Hitler wants peace he has augurated a diesel train for ser-
("Hong Kong, Daily Press" Special) pression. "Gemuet," feeling for
Batavia, Mar. 16. NOTICE is also hereby given that
decided to the Transfer Books of the Company Mr. H. H. Kung, the Finance poetry, and a deep sense of folk done the most foolish thing he vice over a distance of 780 miles of
The firm of Humboldt. Deutz
London, March 18. Chinese lore, these were things of which could possibly do because he has desert, Australls has will be CLOSED from TUESDAY Minister, and leading
The Drafting Committee of the formal German artists were masters and tritated and angered the French introduce such a service over a
distance of 1,505 miles of desert. Meteren AG of Cologne, have 17th MARCH, 1986, until FRIDAY, bankers, attended the
to deliver R London Naval Conference met for which there were often, no and disappointed the British. 27th MARCH, 1936, both days, opening this morning of the Cen-
The "News Chronicle" suggests This will of course, form an im- received an order inclusive, during which period notraj Savings Society, which's affi- words in other languages, Pro-
fessor Burkhardt illustrated his that M, Pierre Flandin's reply to portant part of the log-projected stationary wood-gas power plant this morning to continue transfers of Shares can be registered.lated with the Central Bank..
The Banker Acceptance House, lecture with very well-chosen Herr Hitler is far too violent. It west to east connection of the of 1,000 h.p, to Sumatra. The work on drafting the treaty By Order of the Board,
sponsored by the Joint Reserve lantern sildes and helped his com seems melodramatic and, short- Australian Continent. It is be- plant is destined for a power, the basis of the agreement reach D. L. KING
Board and the Shanghat Bankers i parisons. by citing architectural sighted and British opinion won't loved that the German diesel! station for a new gold mine. There ́ed at the conference last Wednes“.
breakdown in motors are specially suited to draw was strong compétition also from day and of the reports of
technical sub-committees, aize: Association, was also opened this and plastic examples to prove his stand
trains across the west districta- the British side.-- morning-..
runsuzcan News Service Transocean "Acios: Sernice Hong Kong, 14th March, 1938.
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Secretary.
points.-
Transocean News Service
for regotiations- Heular
a
adopted
the
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