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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (FAR BAST) LIMITED,
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE, HONG KONG
THE Annual General Meeting of ΤΗ
the Society will be held in the Board Room of The Hong Kong
1936, at the 5.15 p.m. Exchange Building.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED,
NOICE TO SHAREHOLDERS THE Sixty-seventh
Ordinary
General Meeting of Share holders will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Friday, the 27th 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 81st December, 1935.
!
General Managers, THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1936.
Editorial and Business Offen: 11.
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. Night Editor (Wanemad Office):
Tel. 28311.
London Omes: 63, Fleet Street
2.0. 4.
The Daily Press.
BONG KONG, MARCH 91.1936.
RULE BY MURDER
The Share Register and Transter Books will be closed from the 18th to the 27th March, 1936, both days inolusive.
Another example of "earthquake JARDINE, MATHESON &Cɑ., LTD. politics" is provided in the revolting
brutality of the latest assassinn tions in Japan; politics of violence, the doctrine that those who oppose the reigning daste, or gang are best out of the way!"
No new doctrine in Japan. But perhaps Europeans have no longer the
Our right to be shocked. western Dictatorships have made the "purge" a familar method of eliminating opposition
The clique of flerce, patriots who' TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN N
machine the that the Ordinary Yearly run muitary
have little to fear from Meeting of Shareholders will be held Japan
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HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
in the Office of the Company, the rule of aw. Perfectly in Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on
Appalling Death Toll In U.S. Floods
Seven Persons Perish In
Warehouse Fire
New York, March 20, The flood deaths now total 156. Seven persons in a blazing warehouse at Pittsburgh were burned to death, the surrounding foods preventing all attempts to rescue them. An outbreak of typhoid is feared owing to the tainting of the water supply as a result of choked sewers. Looting has broken out both at Pittsburgh and Vandergrift. The police have been ordered to shoot if the situa- tlon gets out of hind
The position at Washington is, the worst floods in the history of stil precarious. The Potomac the United States which have in- River is steadily ruing President undated thousands of square miles
in the east and south-east area. Roosevelt has inspected the sand- bag defences at White House.
Many residents in West Spring field have been ordered to evacuate their houses which are ip danges of collapse owing to flooding of the Connecticut River. -Beuter.
11
BRIDGE DESTROYED
Fredericton. March 20. The collapse of a dam on the swollen St John River has releas-
For a distance of 200 miles along the Ohio River, the population, on both sides of the stream, has ded to the hills in panic.
in. Pittsburgh alone the damage 1 estimated at $25,000,000 and the city is without newspapers or com- munications, without light and largely without heat. for the elec- tric power plants have fatted and furnaces are flooded. The city is
NEWS SUMMARY
From: mid-day, yesterday 1 p.m. on Sunday, active military operations will be in league at- tacking and defending the island and mainland. During this after- noon the Blue Army is taking up ready to launch the Page 7
position attack.
The
eloquence
་
of Mr. Leo D'Aruada, inr, was successful yes- terday at the Supreme Court when he brought an appeal before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell against a wrongful conviction. Page 6.
held
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The Empress of Britain came Into Hong Kong yesterday bringing with her a full complement of tourists and famous people.
Pare 11.
The Wantsal Government School its 14th Annual Athletic Wis which yesterday Sports favoured with fine sunny weather. Page 10.
Hong Kong will be losing an- other of its well-known residents to-day, when Mr. A. G. Hewitt, F.R.I.B.A. architect and civil en- gineer, will leave for England on retirement by the P. and O. Iner Corfu, thus severing an association with the Colony which has lasted
Monday, 30th March, 1936, at Noon.dependent of despised Parliament, ed thousands of tons of ice. The strewn with debris and a large i for over twenty-six years.
for consideration of the Directors' Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December,
1935.
The Share. Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 21st to 30th March, 1936, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directore.
E. COCK,
1
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Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 12th March, 1936.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
4% DEBENTURES TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN months ending 31st MARCH, 1936, on the above DEBENTURES will be payable at the OFFICES of the COMPANY ON THAT DATE.
have pleasure in announcing the Jockey Club on Monday, 80th March, that INTEREST for the six opening of their Office on the 23k MARCH, 1936, ut No. 4, The ARCADE, PENINSULA H TEL KOWLOON.
Telephone No..........50905 Telegraphic address: Airways &
Codes..
Flying. Bentley's and
I.A.T.A.
M.H. CURTIS,
Trafic Officer,
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS (FAR EAST) LTD. Hong Kong, 19th March, 1933.
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ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB.
"TR VESSA" TROPHY.
THE 25th bi-annual race for ships
Lite Boats will be sailed on. Tuesday, the 21st April next, start ing at 4 p.m.
For the following purposes:-
(a) To receiva the Report of
the Committee and State- ment of Accounts for the past year.
anv
(b) To elect the Officers and Committee for the ensuing year. (e) To transact other business of, which due notice has been given. All Members are requested to attend.
LINSTEAD & DAVIS,
Secretaries & Treasurers. Hong Kong, 21st March, 1936.
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UNION WATERBUAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE Thirty-frat Annual General
to
THE REGISTER OF DEBEN. TURES will be closed from MON-
the 23rd DAY,
MARCH, MONDAY, the 90th MARCH, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of DEBENTURES can be registered.
banded in secret Leagues. they regard themselves as saviours of their country whenever they dispose of men courageous enough to ques- tion their war-mongering, or the strain they put upon Japanese Budgets. That they shou'd think
necessary to destroy men like Okada and Salto seems. however,
Canadian National Railways bridge! between Fredericton Devon has been destroyed. damage is estimated at £300.000. Railway communication with New Brunswick has been interrupted.
The provincial parliament build-trip to Florida and has issued a
for relief work in the flood areas ings are surrounded by the flood proclamation, calling for $3,000,000 waters and the legislators will be
"
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Page 11. part of it is still submerged, and South Washington, the capital, is pre-
The paring for a crisis as the Potomac Four Chiriese, one of the number River continues to rise steadily. a woman, were charged yesterday President F. D. Roosevelt his post- at the Central Magistracy with poned his departure for a fishing possession of 580 taels of oplum an March 4, at No. 92 Wing Lok
charged, while the woman made a Street. The three men were dis-
that she WES
to show that they share the compelled to use boats unless the
bully's waters subside.- average
war-mongering
EARLIER REPORT
In Lawrenceville. Pennsylvania, frans admission
the
flood
"Page 8.
series of deafening explosions | engaged "in dealing with opium." rocked the town fear of the people and the tyrant's Reuler."
waters invaded it and thousands absurd trust in lying propaganda.
fled in terror to the highlands, They have the upper hand; but
New York, Mar. 19.
One house, crowded with refugees, afraid they are always secretly
known to be collapsed when the flood waters Ninety-four are and
damage is estimated at washed away its foundations and dead, $150,000,000 and 200,000 are home-thirty persons were injured.- less in eleven states, as a result of! Reuter
that
opinions reasonable Eaving thoughts may undermine the sway of fanatical obsessions:
We may be sure that they will the latest Little from emerge
after the round-up, 23 they did
Minister murder of the Prime Hara in 1921, or of Hamaguchi in The 1930 or of Inukal in 1932. Emperor pardons these gestures. It is his profession.
All these domestic horrors may be regarded as "things Japanese"
the affairs of the Far East.
It is more serious "for us that Russia nervous'y watches the in-. creasing control of Japanese Fas- clem so to call it; expecting fur- ther raids westward. For, like all terrorist
vi Governments, that Japan continuously exhibits ar almost incredible clumsiness.
We are all so busy and so an-
By Order of the Board of Directors, xious in the West that Japanese
O. EAGER,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 13th March, 1986.
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ALLEGED "INTERFERENCE WITH CUSTOMS
Chinese Government To Protest, To Japan
.
Nanking, Mar. 20. The Government of China will shortly lodge a protest with Japan
of the Chinese against Japanese interference with administration Maritime Customs at Tientsin and
-Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong and Bank Building. ou Shanghai Any ship of a Company having Wednesday, 8th April, 1916, at Chinwangtao, according to a decl- office or responsible agents in Hong NOON, for the purpose of receiving sion of the Executive Yuan.
The pressure being exerted by Kong and which is in Port on the the report of the General Managers day of the race, may enter any num-together with ber of boats,
A Statement of the Japanese authorities on the local customs officials greatly hin- Accounts to 31st December; 1935. All entries should, if possible, be The Transfer Books of the Com-ders the suppression of smuggling in the hands of the Hon, Bec, j R.H.K.T.C. by Noon on the day of pany will be Closed from 2eth March in the north, it is charged.
to 8th April, 1986, both Days the race, and competing boats sbould inclusive.
be at the starting line by 3.30 p.m. DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Post entries, however, received:
will be
NORTH CHINA AFFAIRS
Doihara's Statement On Progress
MISS WOODHEAD TO WED
Ceremony Will Take Place Shortly In England
Shanghal, Mar. 17. The marriage of Miss Elleen Florence Emily Woodhead, the
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Several prominent Hong Kong citizens are leaving by the luxury iner Empress of Britain,
They include Mr. A. L. Shields,
of
Sheran; Principal
Messrs. Tomes & Co., and Director of the South China Morning Post Ltd.. who is proceeding Home on raca-. tion, Mr. M. J. Breen, Postmaster General, who is proceeding Home on long service leave, and Mr. G. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G.Madgwick, of the Public Works W. Woodhead of Shanghai, and
Mr. Warner Oland, the film Mr. E. H, H. Higham, the son of Rev. C. W. R. and the late Mrs. star, and Mrs. Oland, who left the Both the East Hopel Autonomous Higham of
Tittensor, Stafford- Colony on Thursday by the Em- Council and the Hopel-Chahar shire, will take place in England press of Asia, will join the Em-
Council are making shortly.
Political
Mukden, Mar. 20.
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Department.
press of Britain in Shanghai,
The forthcoming wedding is an-
wanderings in China wou'd pass} Lieut-General Kenji Dolhara derHome and the ceremony will be bounced of Mr. William Inwood
not
steady progress, and North China Miss Woodhead is "sailing next" is gradually becoming stabilised," Monday in the ss. Scharnhorst for clared here after his return. "The performed soon after her arrival. almost unobserved, were It that she proceeds with them in
Communist troops In Shansi have series of deflani paroxysms that
#total strength of about 20,000 compel the shocked attention and their advance is a source of the entire world. Even Geneva danger to the North. We must wou'd be glad to ignore them if 1 could and the League bas notoriously evaded the far-Easter problem. A little discretion, and Japanese militarism could quietly proceed with its expansive plans But no! Every feels itself bound to
few months It vociferate
them all over the world and then to hold an organised "battue of al who question them at home.
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SINGAPORE FLYING
ACCIDENT
Flying Officer And Two Aircraftsman Killed
Bingapore, March 20. An inquiry was opened aboard H.M.S. Kent on the cause of the fying accident
which Flying Officer and two Aircrafts-
men were killed. [4292
General Managera. Course Start from Channel Hong Kong, 18th March, 1936. Books, thence to Kowloon Rock (P). Mark off Yacht Club (8), Mark off Cust Rock Beacon (P), finish across Yacht Club Line, leaving mark boat CHINA ENTERTAINMENT AND to Port, and continue sailing until Gunfire for finish.
A launch will leave Queen's Statue
LAND INVESTMENT CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
Pier at 8 pm. for the convenience of N that the SIXTH URDINARY
members and the Gèneral Public.
K. 8. ROBERTSON,
Hon. Secretary.
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INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS OF
HONG KONG.
MEMBERS are requested to
GENERAL MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS will be held at the registered Offices of the Company, King's Theatre Building, 5th Floor, on MONDAY, the 80th day of MARCH, 186, at 12 o'clock, Noon,
in
one
The Executive Yuan also decided to urge the Finance and Railway Ministries to devise measures to enforce &
over stricter control smugglers in North China,
Detalled reports on the existing Customs administration at Tien-
on The plane was
bombing tsin and Chinwangtao were sub- mitted to the Executive Yuan by exercises when it crashed in the the Foreign and Finance, Minis-sea yesterday and is now, lying in tries.--
120 feet of water. Salvage opera Union News,
tions have been undertaken. to recover the plane.- Heuter's Bulletin Service "
www
ITALIAN PLANE HIT BY ENEMY FIRE.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR'S
DEPARTURE
Nanking, March 20.
the. Bir Alexander Cadogan,
to receive the Directors' Report and British Ambassador to China, noW Accounts for the year ended at in Peiping, is expected to arrive December, 1935; to elect Directors and Auditors and to transect such here to bid farewell to the Pres!- dent of the National Government, other business as may be properly transacted at an Ordinary General Meeting of the Company.
“Hong Kong Dai'y Press Specia;
Rome, March 19. Nothing of any importance has r. Lin Sen and other high gov empment officials on March 30 happened on either the Eritrean He will be entertained by General or the Somad fronts in East
watch developments closely. About 70,000 soldiers under General Yen Hsi-shan and General Shang Chen of Hopel are fighting them,”
Hamilton, marine engineer, resid-
The wedding will be the cul-g at European YMCA Kaw- mination of a romance which beloon, and Miss Doris Mond Agnes gan last summer when Miss Wood Sheppard, nurse, of Portsmouth. and HOW staying at "Knutsford bead and her future husband mst
Hotel, Kowloon. holiday. On
Mr. Higham, architect, formerly resided Shanghai, galled for Home only last October.
B11
Lieut-General Doihara, who was
Before her departure Miss Wood- recently elevated from the rank of head is being kept busy saying Major-General, expects to leave | good-bye · to her many friends. will give a farewell soon for his new with the 12th Her parents
cocktall for her later this week Division at Kurume, Kyushu,
Chinese papers in Tientsin stated that General Dolhara is not popular with Japanese troops in North China and is specially dis- liked by Major-General Hayso Tada, the Japanese G.O.C.- Union News.
· CHANG-ARITA TALKS
·
PRESS COMMENT ON MUI TSAI EVIL
London, March 20 In an editorial on the report on the mul tsal system of Hong Kong,
เร
On the occasion of the fifth an- nual general meeting of the HK University Graduates Association and the first general meeting of the University Alumni Association,
in the Gloucester Restaurant on Friday, March 27, Sir Willism Hornell will preside at a tea party, which will commence at 5.15 p.m.
Lain Hof, an earth-carrying coo- He of the Mee Of Company, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital on Thursday suffering from in- Juries received when he was buried the "Times" to-day says that all under a fall of earth at a building Nanking, Mar. 20. the committee's recommendations site in Waterloo Road, Kowloon
the City. After conferring with Foreign were well-intentioned and
of зд Minister Chang Chun
three suggested appointment
One case each of Diphitteris and Ames Mr. Hachiro Arita, the official guardian was obviously Japanese Ambassador, will leave sound, but the difficulties were Cerebro-Spinal Fever were report- manifold and multiform and it is ed to the Health Authorities for Nanking to-night for Shanghal en route to. Tokyo to become Foreign hardly surprising that the White the 24 hours ended on Thursday.
Minister.
Paper holds out no hope for eradicating a custom sponsored by of tradition which, centuries
"There will be no Dinner Dance The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
o-day at. Repulse Bay Hotel, but here in an official statement de
often beneficial 10-morrow at 4.30 pm.”
There will be a General Meeting clares that in the recent exchange thought repugnant in theory, is in the Usual Ten Dance will be held of views between, Mesars. Chang practice more and Arita no third person was pre-than, the reverse,
On the other hand, Sir John sent. The two afficials spoke in
Harris, in an article in the "Datly of the Royal Engineers Old Com- Japanese."
Herald," declarea no reform of this redes Association in the Hotel Much ground was covered in the system of slavery will prevent Cecil on Tuesday, March, 24, com- meeting, but the communique did cruelty. The system of ownership mencing at 7.30 p.m. It is re- not reveal what was "'discussed.
of human beings must go, bequested that all members of the Branch will make an effort to at- The emphasis that no third per- maintains.~*~.
tend. Bon was present was to prevent
! heuter. :- newspapermen from giving out versions embarrassing ta the Nanking, Government- Union News.
BY-ELECTION RESULT
London, March 19.
PEACE DISCUSSION POSTPONED
And notice is further hereby given Chang Chun, the Fore go Minis- Africa, states the Italian', official
War bulletin No. 159, except that I hat the Register and Transfer Bookster, at dinner on March 31, Vattend the ANNUAL of the Company will be-Closed from
The Ambassador will salt for one Italian bombing plane was GENERAL MEETING in the rooms the, 28rd to the 30th day of March. Canada cboard the Empress of bit by the enemy's fire while in The Lumbartonshire by-election which was fixed for this afternoon
of the Institution on Monday, March 1936, both days inclufive. 23rd, at 6.00. P.M.
W. F. SIMPSON,
Hon. Secretary.
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∙LIẢNG CHI HAO,
Canads on April 5 en route to England to assume his new office Managing Director.
as Deputy Under-Secretrays for Hong Kong, 19th March, 1988.- Foreign Affairs.
[4290. Central News
London, Mar. 20. The meeting of the Committee of Thirteen of the League of Nations to consider the replies of Italy and Abyssinia to fin appea for opening of peace negotiations, has been postponed owing to the was able to escape over the Cassell (Labour) 20,137 Duffe fact that Mr. Edea is unable to
in the House of Commons Unes, and all the inmates, except | (Conservative) 19,203: Gray (Scot- attend, his presence being required
tlah Nationalist) 2,599- que, sustained, slight injuries
British Wirdess. British Wirele Transocean News Service.
action of the Eritrea front, but resulted as follows
After the meeting there will be a concert arranged by Staff Sergeant 1 Jordan, R. E. Light refresh- ments will be served during the evening.
KING TO RECEIVE M. AVENOL
London, Mar. 20 The Becretary General of the League M. Joseph Avenol, will be
British Wireler. received by the King this after-
noon.