The hearing of a cram against
nature of a test ease to force the return of dancing tickets to the proprietor Of the Academy, was J. resumed before Mr. Justice J Hayden at Supreme Court yester. day after a lapse of over two Pag: 11 months.
Tourane in Annam, our next port two cabaret girs, which is in the of call.
We
a
Very
Leaving the winding river on which Saigon Les,
set northerly course over cultivated lands and rubber estates. quickly the cultivation gives why to jungles, and the ground begins to rise towards the wwering moun- tains in the distance, and we be- gin to climb too.
3
After the Coroner had summed up the evidence called at previous
verdict
Death," of "Accidental The weather becomes cloudy and hearings, the jury returned we climb up into the blue skies and added a rider, at the Inquiry above, from which position we conducted by Mr. Macfadyen at catch glimpses of the jungle the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday covered mountains below. It is into the circumstances regarding said that this jungle contains more the death of Ko Sze-mui, 43... wild animals to the square mile female, and seven others who than any other parf of the world. were killed in the disastrous col- and looking down into it, in its lapse of houses at Woosung Street sin'ster grandeur, we feel relieved on February 19. that the days of forced landings are passed and over.
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A case which is probably unique We climb up to 12,000 feet to
In the history of shipping in Hong clear the mountain peaks of the Kong was brought before Hon. Coldeshunge, which encircles Comdr. G. F. Hole. Harbour Mas- Tourane, most aptly named, for ter, yesterday, when an appeal was are they not always covered in made by Cryptain F. A. Kjelgaard. clouds?"
master of the freighter Bright Passing across these we spy be- Vega, whose ship has been detain- low us, through a gap in the clouds, ed in Hong Kang owing to excep- A glimpse of water, and gliding tion being taken to the fact that, gently down as we come out beneath though under the British flag, the only two British the clouds, we see spread before us vessel carries
Chief the coast lines of Annam, with the officers, the Captain, rhd town of Tourane nestling in the Engineer. bay.
THE START
Jou Let me try to describe to '(H." Wragg)
the first (Steve Donoghue) the trip itself. Just as
(Gardner) rays of dawn were appearing in (Sammy Wragg the Eastern skles we took off in (Haweroft) the Royal Mali Aircraft "Dorado," - (Lynen; bound for Hong Kong with our (Hollingsworth first load of mall,
Circling the aerodrome, we see the few the twinking lights of carly risers in Georgetown the
We alight at the aerodrome and port of Penang. Then setting our having seen "Dorado" fed and course to the north-east we see in safely tucked away for the night. we proceed into town for a night's the Straits separating the sand. riding from the mainland, the
rest, prior to our final jump across lights of the ships ying at anchor the China Seas to Hong Kong. there. Crossing the corkst in the see vast half light of dawn we expanses of rubber plantations. for are we not passing over the
The following changes and joc- keys are announced: Priok Yorkshireman Mistral III..... If it does nothing else, yester-Cabinteely...... day's flight and those to come will Rodeo If tend to make us in Hong Kong feel Screamer we are living in a part of the Em- Spasm pire rather than on a spot on the Golden Bow map underlined in red ink. But Reuter, the effect will be more than that. Air routes are to-day opening up countries just as roads and rall- ways have done in the past and Back Building, on the quick transit of letters and Wednesday, 8th April, 1936, at passengers between England and NOON, for the purpose of receiving Hong Kong should stimulate local the report of the General Managers trade almost immediately.
搞 Statement of together with Accounts to 31st December, 1985.
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany, will be Closed from 28th March to 8th April 1936, both Days inclusive.
THE Thirty-first Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of Messra. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong and Shanghai
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,"
General Managers. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1936.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE SECOND EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held Board of Directors for the year ended (Weather Permitting) as HAPPY December 31st... 1988 Electing VALLEY on SATURDAY, 28th Directors and Auditors, and for the MARCH, 1936, commencing at transaction of any other Ordinary 2.00 P.M. business of the Company
Like all organisations on which money and brains have been spent for public service, Imperial Air- ways new service is more than entitled to publie patronage. In a way the co-operation of the public is imperative for it would be a re- flection on the short-sightedness
London, Mar. 24. A Lincolnshire candidate heavily backed. Screamer. is reported to have a lame shoulder. and could not got out for exercise to-day, but probably the horse will be running
to-morrow-
Reuler.
CHINA'S DAVIS CUP PLAYERS
Shanghai, Mar. 24. The following have been select-
home of the rubber industry? Locking down on it now it seems unbelievable that it was a little over hundred years ago that the first rubber tree was imported, or rather smuggled into Ma aya from
of local residents and businessmened as China's representatives for Ceylon. Looking on them now.
if the new service were to be in need of public support.
In this respect it is perhaps un- fortunate that more encourage-
for
the Davis Cup tennis tournament: Gordon Lum and Kho Sie-kic, who are both salling on Thursday; ment was not given to the new Guy Cheng, who is leaving service in the shape of an edition Parks from New York.
W. 0. Choy Cambridge Blue. new stamps. Other nations have been quick to realise the ap-left for Hong Kong today on the
NDL Scharnhorst.-- and subsequent financial
Keller. peal benefit from the philatelic interests in air mail stamps,
ot
But yesterday's epochal flight is not deserving of criticism, and, tritely but truly, the whole Colony The First Bell will be Rung at will echo our sentiments in con-
NOTICE is also hereby given that 1.80 P.M. the Transfer Books of the Company
'By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary.
inclusive, during which period no Hong Kong, 23rd March, 1996.
will be CLOSED from TUESDAY
17th MARCH, 1986, until FRIDAY,
27th MARCH, 1996, both days,
transfers of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board
D. L. KING,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 14th March, 1996.
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HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK CO., LTD.
FOR SALE
gratulating Imperial Airways on yesterday's safe arrival and wish- ing every success for the future.
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NEWS OF MR. WANG CHING WEI
"
London, Mar. 24. The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Que Tal-chi, has, returned from
COMMUNIST WARFARE IN SHANSI
Felping. Mar. 24. Chinese reports cláim that Bbansi troops re-took Bultou- cheng, in Western. Shans, which is claimed to be Genera: Mao Tse- tung's headquarters, yesterday.
Central Government troops con-
have
stretched as far as the eye can reach, one feels that they been there since the beginning of time.
Dawn again sees **Dorado" straining at her leash ready to be
off, and on the stroke of six we leave Tourane and set across the open sea.
The first point we 'strike in China is the Island of Hainan, and flying along its rugged shore for some hundred miles. we check up our Speed and position. and calling up Hong Kong, we tell them we shall be arriving at 11.30.
SHARKS BELOW!
Japanese.
the others being Page 7
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The funeral of the late Mrs. Pelagia E Egge wife of Mr. W Egge, Manager of Messrs. Kunst- and Albers, Pedder Building, who died of the French Hospital early yesterday morning, after an ness of about a month, took place at the Colonial Cemetery yester- day evening, and was well attend- ed by a large number of her friends.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Dr. D. J. Valentine, M.C., M.B.B.S. (Lon.) D.T.M. & H. (Eng.) J.P., wilt give the next lecture in First Aid for women) at St. John Am- bulance Headquarters on Thursday, March 26 at 5.30 p.m.
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Climbing stead'ly we soon leave As we look over the side we see the rubber plantations behind and three very large sharks desporting the jungle covered themselves in the water, and one
A woman, Ching Ng, aged 74 pass on to mountains, the home of the jungle feels that an aircraft is even safer tribes of Malaya, now rapidly dy. than a ship, because you are far-years, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital on Monday suttering from under the ng out
march of ther away from them.
injuries received when she was Dead on 11.30 we pass over civilisation, but who can still be seen in plages, hunting their food Magazine Gap and see spread be- krocked down by car No. 2923 in with ther long blow-pipes and fore us the glorious panorama of Cheung Sha Wan Road.
Hong Kong harbour, with Kowloon Just over an hour's flying from in the background, a mixture, of Penang brings us to the sandy the north Devon coast and Scot shores of the east coast of Malaya, land.
darts.
to the little town of Kota Bahru, As we dy over the town we are nesting in among the cocoanut greeted by a squadron of aircraft palms on the banks of wide from HMS. Hermes and so we
When winding river.
а one
Crossing the coast at the mouth
on or the river. we set out
The troopship Neuralia has left
March 26. Bad weather has caus- Singapore and is expected here on ed her to be slightly behind her original schedule.
m
sees come to Kal Tack Aerodrome. A dinner dance will be held at but the report lacks confirmation. these little town-ships, one won- where we land and are greeted by Répuise Bay Hotel to-day at 8.30 ders what the people do there, His Excellency the Governor, and what sort of a life they lead. so ends the first air mail fight to
One case each of Diphtheria and Fever and two Hong Kong, which is, I trust, the forerunner of many others, and Cerebro-Spinal
that in a matter of a couple of a perfectly confident in saying case of Enteric Fever were reported years aircraft will be the means 24 hours ended on Monday, of transportation of all Arst class mall matter, and a considerable
tinue to pour into the province and they now total dve divisions, twn. belonging to General Shang Chen- and one to General Liu Chih, as 1. Two Brush Ljungstrom turbines. visiting Mr. Wang Ching-Wel, in wel as the 25th Division, which is directly controlled by the Gen.. Each turbine runs at 3,000 rpm, said that Mr. Wang has greatly Interviewed by Reuter, he
eralissim. and is fitted with two generators,
·Beiter. the combined capacity of whilab benefited from the sea voyage and is 500 kilowatts. These sets are locks remarkably well The ballet, still in the back, occasionally gives. 3-phase, 50 periods, 600 volts.
NOTICE The Ordinary Yearly
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 2. Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Office of the Company, 2 Queen's Building, Hong Kong, on Monday, auth March, 1986, at Noon, for consideration of the Directors Report and Statement of Accounts 8. for the year ending 31st December, 1935.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 21st to 30th March, 1938, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
E. COOK,
Chief Manager.
Hong Kong, 12th March, 1986.
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Paris.
One 80,000 pound Baboook and pain and Mr. Wang is consu ting Wilcox Marine type Boiler fitted specialistz with a view to its re- After that he will spend with Superheaters and Economimeval
'EDUCATION MINISTER IN JAPAN
Tokyo, Mar. 24.
sers complete with chimney some wecks in the south of France suitable for working up to 200 and may visit England Hs re- Mr. Hachisaburo Hirao, has been pounds pressure. This boilor is turn to China depends on politi-designated as the new Minister fo ütted with chain grate stokers.
One set of Oil Burning Equip ment for the conversion of the abave builer te oil firing consist- ing of oil tank, pressure oil pamps and complete set of oil
burgers.
Enquiries to the
MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL
ENGINEER, MUNICIPAL OFFICES, PENANG, 8.8.
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cal requirements.— Reuter.
JAPANESE MINISTER TO SIAM
Education. Renter
GERMAN AMBASSADOR 'ON FURLOUGH
Takyo, Mar. 24.
Shanghai, Mar. 24. The "Asahi Shimbun' states that; The German Ambassador, Dr. Mr. Ishii, Coniul-General in Oscar Trautmann is proceeding to Shanghai, will shortly be appoint-Europe this afternoon aboard the ed Japanese Minister to Blam. Echarnhorst on furiough-
Beutel Reuter.
OUT
250-mile sea trip across the Gulf of Slam to "Indo-China
IN INDO-CHINA
to the Health Authorities for the
The return of Notifiable Diseases
In a little over, one and a bat | amount of passengers and goods, which have been notified as having hours' fiying we see in the dis-and it will be possible to reach tance the cutline of the Cape of London from Hong Kong in under Cambodia, and crossing the coast the week.
of French Indo-China we cross- over the flat plans with the r myriads of canals and rivers, with paddy fields stretching away into the distance and so to Saigon, our first port of call.
the
*Here
draw up we
on tarmac and no sooner are
the engines stopped than the pro-
SCOTSMEN IN CANADA
PERTURBED: “
Ottawa, Mar. 23. Scotsmen in Canada are per-
occurred in the Colony of Hong Kong during the week ended
March 21 are as follows:--Small- Pox 2 cases, 1 death, 1 imported; Diphtheria 7, cases, 6 deaths; En- teric Fever 3 cases, 2 deaths; 1 death: Cerebro-Spinal Fever Tuberculosis (not notifiable) fatal cases.
ces of refuelling is commenced turbed by the announcement that and the passengers and crew go the importation of haggis from off to the Aero Club of Indo-China Scotland is being banned, owing to for lunch, where we met Monateur the foot and mouth disease regulas Van den Born, the first man who tonay Are ever flew in Hong Kong in 'the year.
One Bootsman was jokingly in-
NEW ZEPPELIN
Berlin, Mar, 23.
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The new Zeppelin, Hindenberg, to fy to Rio de Janeiro, on March 30,
The giant airship flew over Ber-. 1911. He now lives in retirement formed by a Government official in to-day on a trial flight lasting at Saigon, where he still takes keen, that hinggis manufactured in five hours. the carried a hundred,
I passengers. interest in aviation and still les France could be imported.
Reuters Bulletin Service. himself,
Heuter's Bulletin Hervis.