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EW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
HE Fifty 8th Ordinary General Meeting of the Company will bold at the Offices of the Jeneral Managers, Mossrs. Jandive, Latheson & Jo., Ltd, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 22nd pril, 1936, at Noon, for the purpose receiving the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and lecting Directors and Auditors,
The Transfer Books of the Com- any will be CLOSED from the 15th April to the 6th May inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON&Co., LTD.,
General Managers, Hong Kong 2nd April, 1936.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
UNION WATERBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
on
Teeting of Shareholders will THE Thirty-first Annual General be held at the Offices of Messze. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong and
Bank Building. Shanghai Wednesday, 8th April, 1938, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers
& Statement together with | Accounts to 31st December, 1935,
The Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be Closed from 28th March Eo 8th April, 1935, both Days inclusive.
DODWELL & CO., LTD",
General Managers. Hong Kong, 18th March, 1936.
of
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1936.
Editorial and Business Office: 11-
Ice House Street. Tel 30251. Night Editor (Wanchat Office):
Tel. 24511. London Omice: 53. Fleet Street
E.C. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, APRIL 3. 1936.
FORTY YEARS AFTER
The new treaty between France and Russia is an alliance in anti- cipation of war, not in expectation
of peace.
KOWLOON TIGER AGAIN!
Pair Of Animals Sighted
HIKERS WARNED
German Press Comment
On Peace Plan
("Hong Kong Dally Press” Special)
"Berlin, April 2. The German press is entirely preoccupied with the German peace plan which. as the National Socialist central organ, "Voel- kischer Beobachter“ points out.. is based the German na- tion's overwhelming profession of faith in Hitler as proclaimed in the elections on March 29, and therefore, must be regarded as a "clear-cut programme with a clear-cut purpose."
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NEWS SUMMARY
By kind permission of the Chair- man and Committee, the drawing for the Hong Kong Ambulance Brigade Cup Sweep took place yes- terday evening, at the Sports Club In the presence of a number of ticket holders.
Page 10,
Admiral Orin G. Murtin, Com- mander-in-Chief of the U:8. Asiatic Fleet, arrived in the Colony Two reports, varying greatly in
yesterday morning aboard his fing- the type of animat seen, were re-
ship, USS. Augusta. The cus- ceived by the Kowloon City Police The existing dimculties, so the
were fired, and take to have the eventual agree tomary salutes Station yesterday. «One report de- ! paper continues, can and must be ment ratiẞed by 'a plebiselte, later Mr. Charles L Hoover, U.S.
Hong Kong. finitely refers to a tiger, while the removed and this can only be ac-
the. "Boersenzeitung" writes that Consul-General" in other states that "two black
"France takes pride in being aand Commodore C, G. Sedgwick complished by joint effort. The animals" were seen,
German plan is merely a sincere
country of the purest democracy. pald their courtesy calls on the Page 5. At least "Ave people were men-
We are curious to know, whether Admiral, desire on all sides for the rapid re- tioned in the latter report, as
the French Government will put Broadminded-
her democratic principles to having spotted a species of beast. alization of peace.
the We deeply regret, having to re- well as while, the source of the first reportness of its conception, as
test suggested by the German plan cord the death, which occurred at Was not stated.
the Victoria Hospital shortly after The question the seriousness of its determination
in the interests of both narlaus."
The naturally arises. Is there a tiger, to attain true peace leads one to
Allgemeineze!-seven o'clock on Wednesday night, the other hope that Europe is on the thresh-
tung" stresses that although the of Mr. M. A. Cooper, B. Com.. [4299 portant as any detail of the diplo- and if so, what are
hold of a new era in its history..
German programme in the ordin- Lecturer of Economics at the Hong matic regrouping which the
Page 7 The "Beriner Lokalanzeiger" de-
ary course of procedure was ad-Kong University. Franco-Russian pact achieves,
cares that even the most suspic- dressed to the British Government, When the accord was negotiated
lous critic must admit that the Ger- it was now up to France to come
Latest advices from the stranded nearly a year ago, emphasis was
man peace plan constitutes a gen to a decision as to whether in the Chinese freighter Pel An state that is hard thrown on the terms which keep
erous attempt because it is not con-words of Mr. Anthony Eden she is the 2,600-ton steamer 1 within the framework of the
fined to arguments and demands ready to approach. with an open aground, but that salvage is pos- These pro
but is directed to a goal which is. mind the problems which
As a result of this report a still aible. League and Locarno. visions were elaborately and skill- fully phrased. But since then his-
or should be. common to al' the separate her from Germany. Tha local tug, the Talkoo, owned by tory has been riding hard.
nations. Such a peace plan can paper points out that Mr. Eden the Taikoo Dockyard and Engl- the station the same day states only be rejected by those who do added significantly that otherwise neering Co., Ltd., is leaving this
not want peace."
could not
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION 8 from To-day's date Our Office
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will be situated at the Eccond MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS Floor, Bank of East Asia Building,
10, Des Voeux Road Central.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO. 30th March, 1986
No. 18 or 1934.
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IN TEX MATTER
COLIN MACKENZIE AND COMPANY LIMITED (And Reduced).
and
IN THE MATTER OF THE COM. PANIES ORDINANCE 1934] 1.
TOTICE is hereby given that a
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Petition for confirming the reduction of the paid up and issued capital of the above Company, from $100,000.00 to $75,000.00 was on the
20th day of March, 1930, presented to 2. the Supreme Court of Hong Kong and ia now pending. A list of the person admitted to have been Creditors of the above Company on the 3rd day of April, 1930, (the date fixed by the Order in this matter dated the 27th day of March, 1936) may be inspected at the office of Messrs. Deacons the
Solicitors to the Company at No. 1,
Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong at any time during usual business hours.
Any person who claims to have been on the last mentioned day and still to be a Creditor of the Company and who is not entered in the said list and Falaims to be so entered must on or before the 17th day of April, 1938 send in his name and addresa and the par- ticulars of his claim and the name and address of his Solicitor (if any) to the undersigned at No. 1, 'Des Voeux Road Central aforesaid or in default thereof he will be precluded from objecting to the proposed reduction of capital.
Dated this 3rd day of April, 1938. "
DEACONS,
Solicitors to the Company. 1. Des Vinux Road Central, Hong Kong
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HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
LIMITED.
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8.
"FOR SALE
(43.3
Two Brush Ljungstrom turbines.
Each turbine runs at 3,000 r.p.m. and is fitted with twa generatore, the combined capacity of which is 500 kilowatts. These sets are 3-phase, 50 periods, 600 volts. One 80,000 pound Babcook and Wilcox Marine type Boiler fitted with Superheaters and Economi- sers complete with chimney suitable for working up to 200 pounds pressure. This boiler is Bitted with chain grate stokers. One set of Oil Burning Equip- meut for the conversion of the above boiler to oil firing consist ing of oil tank, pressure oil pumps and complete set of oil burners.
Enquiries to the
MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL
ENGINEER,
MUNICIPAL OFFICES, PENANG, S. S.
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CHINESE FEARS ABOUT
JAPANESE ACTION
Shanghai, Apr. 2. The recent successes claimed by Government. troops against the Communists in Shansi have failed to relieve Chinese political circles, who fear that if the eastward movement of the Reds con nue, Japan will seize it as a pretext fur the military conquest of North
The fact is unfortunate. Yet it is a fundamental fully as 1-
Out of the current debates in
the French chamber, the treaty emerges with its military aspects in boldest rellet. There is haste haste occasioned for France by the swift rearmament of Germany, for
Russia by the added pressure of
animals?
The first report is emphatic on the type of animal spotted. It states briefly that a telephone message was received at Kowloon City to the effect that "a tiger was seen on the hillside behind No. 1 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong." The report is dated 8.50 pm. «
The second report received at
"two animals each "about three feet high and black or very dark were seen by three Europeans, an Indian constable B.58, and a Cal- nese constable C.410."
One thing seems certain Wild
animals are roaming the ranges of
Japanese expansion and militar-
hills forming Kowloon Peak, Lion's isra. The original concepts of a pact to which Germany, Poland Rock and Beacon Hill It would and other nations might adtere, be well for hikers to take warning at these latest reports, "for the is practically forgotten.
The development of the Franco-country at the base of these hills Russian alliance in the months are incredibly thickly wooded, and from signature to ratification thus would form an awkward country
to meet one of the "visitors" || Ulustrates again that the words of treaties are less important than the spirit in which they are writ- ten. For it is not the form but
the substance that brings disturb- ing comparisons with the alliance of 1891 which led the same two countries toward the conflagration of 1914.
TYPHOON WARNING
A telegram from Manila dea- patched at 3.20 p.m, yesterday gave the following typhoon warning:
Typhoon in about 130 degrees Long. E. and 11 degrees Lat. N.. moving W.N.W.
The major difference, some forty years later, lles in a world more plearly awake to the needs for col: lective peace. Throughout France Itself there is a sincere desire to | PE find security within the idea of the League. The difficulty-and the need is to make the wider peace system not a secondary. but primary objective of policy. »
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REVOLVER FOUND
A 7.85 calibre revolver, and a magazine with eight rounds of ammunition wrapped in a jacket were found in the back yard of
a.m. yesterday.
WOMAN STABBED No. 116 Yu Kuk Street about 6.20
BY YOUTH
Assailant Attempts Suicide
A dastardly attempt on the Life of a waitress aged 23 years old, who was attacked by a youth 18 in Spring Garden
ĐE. WANG CHUNG HUI AT CAPITAL
Nanking April 2. Dr. Wang Chung-hul arrived this morning by train from Shanghai and called on Mr. Sun Fo.. Later General Chiang he interviewed Kai-shek.- Leuter.
BANK OF ENGLAND
. DIRECTORATE
Mr. D. G. M. Bernard Appointed
London, Apr. 3 Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, former Managing Director of Messrs. Jar-
Referring to the statement that Germany and France both under-
GREAT CITY ON THE DANUBE
Budapest's Postal Innovation
*Deutsche
even Britain peace- Transocean Special Service.
ensure
GENERAL STAFFS
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morning for the scene of the wreck at Eakhlong Island, about 420 miles from here, and hopes to be able to reach the Pet An early to- day.
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*A sensation was created at the Central Magistracy yesterday,
CONVERSATIONS when Albert Randall, aged 27, un-
A Hopeful Outlook
the
London, April 1.
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Page 7.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
employed, of No. 1 Prospect Place, was charged "together with seven Chinese with conspiring to bribe Revenue Officer Mo Kang and other Revenue Officers, with intent to influencing them from pro- giving information It is anticipated in London that secuting, or Hong Kỏng Day Press" Specia ́) conversations between the generai which might lead to the prosecu-. Badspest April. 2. staffs provided for, in the third tion of certain offenders under the
Opium Ordinance. "The "Great City on the Danube," section of the proposals drawn up Locarno powers other as Budapest has been affectionally ty
A net profit of $95.319,94 was called, so proud of its modern con- than Germany will begin shortly.. ventences, has èdded another The agenda for the discussions reported by the Directors of Chi- feature to public life which can will be agreed between the Gov-nese Estates, Limited, at the an- ernments which will closely define nual meeting held at the Com- justly be called unique.
pany's offices in China Building is of course Because of the rapid growth of their scope, which suburbs and the steadily growingmited by the terms of the pro-yesterday.
# well. as by popularity of sky-scrapers, the pasals themselves Post Office could no longer keep Foreign Secretary's statement in step with the civic development, the House of Commons, that, being but there were also not enough only for the purpose of Locarno
For General Information, it is public funds to work out a Treaty, they cannot increase
notified that the final lecture ( modernizing and enlarging scheme. affect the political undertaking or So the Post Once has inaugurated any obligations as regards the de- First Ald will be delivered by Dr. a "Wandering Post Office."
fence organisation between the D. J. Valentine, D.D.M.S.S., at the St. John Ambulance Headquarters The postman, blowing a horn, parties concerned.
ion. Friday evening, April 3, at 5.30 comes through the streets, takes in regard to this TEST Condition In mail, gives out arriving mail," it is understood that the French
Ambassador sells stamps and even issues money
has Informed the The Hong Kong Stock Exchange orders. As the postman does. Foreign Secretary h's Government have received a cable from Messrs. however. no longer mount the will fully subscribe to It. It is Derrick & Co. Local Secretaries in stairs, the inhabitants that expect also considered likely that, the singapore of the Raub Australian mall must go down to fetch it, or letter to French Government pro- Gold Mining Co., Ltd. announcing as some households have already vided for at end of Three Power the output for the four weeks end- done. zrain dogs to bring letters to proposa's will be sent quite sooning March 28, 1938 to be 2001 the "post office and collect in-
The despatch of the letter in itself ounces. coming mat-
of course does not affect anything, The coming into force of the undertakings given in the letter depends upon failure of the effort for conciliation and happily, in the slew of the 'British Government the 5th to 17 inch on the 2nd. such failure is not yet in sigh: though difficulties ahead are not minimised.~ British Wireless."
Transoccan News Service.
THE CITY OF KHARTOUM VERDICT
Cause Of Accident Not Determined
of
Alexandria, March 19. The inquest on the 12 victims
of flying-bost the Airways
City Khartoum, which crashed into the
CABINET DECISION "
London, April 1.
p.m.
The total rainfall during March was only 56 inch, 24 days of the 31 being completely rainless. The amounts varied from 01 inch on
The Canossian Institute (Italian Convent) has received from Sir Robert Ho Tung a cheque for $100 as a contribution to the Convent for expenses in connection with the recent commemoration and Jubilee functions.
TOTICE is hereby given that the China.
FOURTEENTH ORDINARY According to reports from Gen-years of age YEARLY MEETING of Share.eral Yen Shi-chan, Pacification lane, occurred yesterday morning. holders of the Hongkong Engineering Commissioner in Shans! the back- The woman was stabbed in the and Construction Company, Limited,
bone of the Communist resistance abdomen, face and "hand before will be held at the Offices of Messrs.
has now been broken, although aid could be procured. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mer-
The youth then stabbed himself cantile Bank Building, Quoon's Road scattered groups are still operating
five times in the abdominal regions (Central), Hong Kong, on Friday, in South Shars. the 17th April, 1936, at 12 o'clock The principaldanger averted in a desperate attempt to take his cwn life. A pair of scissors was (Noon), for the purpose of receiving was the threatened invasion, of the Report of the Board of Directors Ropel and Chahar, which would used in the two attempts and for- and a Statement of Accounts for the tring the Communists into direct tunately enough for all concerned, Year ended on the 31st December, conflict with the Japanese, whose both attempts falled. The two - 1985, and electing Directors and
military movements. It is repeated-jured people are now lying in the Auditors.
ly affirmed, have the intention of Government Civil Hospital where The Transfer Books of the Com-interceding as soon as the security they were immediately rushed. pany will be CLOSED from the 9th of those two provinces is menaced
attack took place at No. 83 Spring
According to a police" report the Fuine, Matherson and Co. Ltd. has of the accident to the Imperfa:/ Voked aggression. If the present Thursday, April 9,.at Government April to the 17th April, 1936, both Reuter
Garden Lane, first floor, the days inclusive.
sidence of Ho Yee Mul, aged 23, a waitress, at about 10.35 am. yes- terday. She was stabbed three timea in the abdomen, face and hand, inflicted with a scissor blade by Chau Kau, 18 years of age, un- employed, of No. 58 Tai Yuen London, April 1.
Street, ground floor, who attempt The British Cabinet, which meted to commit suicide by stabbing at 11 am. to consider the inter- himself five times in the abdomen. nationa: situation, met again in The motive for the crime was the afternoon, after an adjours apparently jealousy. ment for lunch, in the Prime Minister's roomi in the House of Commons. Reutes.
By Order of the Board,
B: ALVES,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, let April, 1936.
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THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
THE
BRITISH CABINET
DISCUSSION
AIRSHIP HINDENBURG'S
"PROGRESS
Director
It is understood that the Cabinet to-day decided on the letter to be despatched immediately to France
His Excellency the Governor, Sir and Belgium, under which Britain guarantees to ensure security - Andrew Caldecott, Is holding a small Investiture at noon оп those two countries against unpro-
House when Paymaster-Comman- condiiation efforts fal
It is expected that the three der E. A. Jolley, R.N., of HMS Dorsetshire, will be invested" with sea on December 31, was conclud-Governments concerned will now the insignia, of Officer of the Most draft an agenda on which even- Excellent Order of the British tor of Matheson and Co., Ltd., in ed here today.
Empire. passengers, Mr. tual Staff talks will be held.- London, of the Alliance Assurance found that two Co., Ltd, and of the British and Garrett and Mr. Lake, and two cf. Chinese Corporation, Ltd. He -1°
the crew, Mr. Baker and Mr. also a member of the London Amor, were drowned; and that the Committee of the Hong Kong and
eight other, occupants were killed Shanghai Banking Corporation. in the machine..
been elected a Bank of England..
Mr. Bernard is at present direc
Mr. Bernard spent many years
The Coroner
The Coroner sald it had been
Freuter.
NEW APPOINTMENT FOR
MALAYAN OFFICIAL
ידי
London, April 1. to the Far East being Managing established that the flying-boat Director of Jardine, Matheson and was airworthy in every particular. Mr. H. A. Tempany. Director, al I was almost impossible to state Agriculture in the Straits Settle- Co, from 1922 to 1928. During
the cause of the accident" with that period he DES for
ments and FM.S., has been ap- several
"It wrs clear complete certainty. 01 the Hong NEW TERRITORIES BLAZE periods a member
that there was no fuel in the car pointed Agricultural Adviser to the
Colonial Office Legislative Kong Executive - and
burettor when the engines failed. Councils, Chairman at the Hone but if the stoppage was 'due to an Router.
Com- on General Chamber of
of Directors of the
exce, and Chairman of the Court Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora-
A fire broke out at Chuk Yun Village, near the Kowloon Golf Club, Kowloon City, yesterday and totally destroyed a range of huts made of wood, and corrugated iron. No one was injured.
HE Registered Offices of the
An alarm was received at the Company are now situated at ("Hong Kong Daily Preas" Special)
Kowloon City Police Station short- Hamburg, Aprili 2. ly after nine, and a party of police 10, Des Voeux Roat Central, (Bank
The airship Hindenburg was 200 were immediately despatched. The Fast Asia Building), Telephone nautical miles to the northwest of fire brigade also were scon on the
27781.
the island of Boa Vista, belonging spot, but owing to the remoteness- to the Cape Verde group, early of the village, the fire hoses could yesterday forenoon, according to a not be brought into play. Hand SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
wireless message received here buckets were utilised, but the General Managers which adds that the airship was Dames totally destroyed a range of
steering a course towards the huts over an area of 100 feet by 30 feet before being brought under island-
control (4828 Transocean News Service.
April, 1986.
|tion,
Router.
ELECTRICITY OUTPUT IN
BRITAIN
London. April 1 The electricity itput of Britain has increased 70 per cent since 1920 whereas the world's output increased only 20 per cent in the same period Reuter's Bulletin Service.
air-lock in the petrol-feed 'system
One case of Enteric Fever, and four cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever were reported to the Health Au thorities for the 24 hours ended ont Wednesday.
FINDING HOMES FOR ASSYRIANS
London, Apr. 1. Britons, already generous nhan- cial supporters of the plan to settle
the acoldent was an “act of God." path to the Foca Imperial Airways i homeess. Assyrians; are being anked
sist Assyrian settlement" in the Near East
accident was primarily owing to after the reeling-in signal had an alteration in the main "sets. been given from the aircraft, with The cause of the stopping of the the result that rescue mersures The appeal was launched yester engines, wrs either the absence of were delayed and misdirected. He day by the Archbishop of Canter- fuel, through an air-lock in the added a rider recommending tha bury, during a meeting at Mansion petrol-feed system or the exhaus Imperial Airways should tghten House: A large representative ga- tion of petrol However, he would up their system of communication thering under the chairmanship irake a recommendation to Im-between the fare-path and the of the Lord Mayor of London perial Airways that alterations superintendent; that a seagoing heard Mr. Anthony Eden, the For- "affecting petrol consumption tug should be available for sal- eign Minister, support the project.
During his speech Mr. Eden j should be brought to the notice of vage and rescue work; said that if
be installed in Circraft against the ment was anxious to bring:s soln- the pilot in an unmistakable possible a signaling device should stated that the Brillan✨ Govern- manner.
The Coroner found, that, no in everituality of sudden emergency tion to this question
Router's Bulletin Service.. formation was sent from the fare-lendings.