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FACULTY F MEDICINE
Post-graduate Refresher Course will be held in the School of
Surgery of the Hong Kong University from Monday the 20th to Friday the 24th of April, 1986, inclusive. The syllabus is as follows:-
| Monday, 20th April (6 to 7 p.m.)
LECTORS-Professor W. C. W.
Nixon. Professor of Obste trics & Gynaecology University of Hong Kong,
SUBJKOT "Toxaeming
Pregnancy".
of
Tuesday, 21st April (6 to 7 pm.) IN THE SUPREME COURT OF LECTURE:-Professor W.1. Gerrard,
HONG KON
6.B.E., Professor of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, "
General Practice"
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THE GOODS AUBREY MAURICE BOWES-SMITH. "LATE OF S16, THE PEAK, IN THE Colorr or Home Kose, Er ORANGE BROKER, DECEASED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of the provisions of Section 38 of Ordin ance No. 2 of 1897, mad an order limiting the time for editors and others to sond in their claims against the abbre estäte fo 3TH MAY, 1936.
All Creditors and others are accord. ingly horoby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before that date.
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LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Wadaes lay, 22nd April (6 to 7 p.m.) LectuDr. F. J. Farr, Lecturer in Radiology, University of Hong Kong.
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HONG KONG, Apart 17, 1938.
PRETTY PHRASES
One of the facts which máy most disturb future historians who con- template the present age is the disparity between the stern facts of our life and conditions and the
ARMY BOXING TORPEDO MOTOR BOATS NEWS SUMMARY
Interesting Fights In Semi-Finals
The Individual and Nov.ces Semi- inals of the Hong Kong Area Box- ing Championship were fought last night at the Murray Barracks.
The fights were not very interest- ing, two of them being walk-overs. In the Novices :Welterweight. L/C Rothwell put up a very good fight against Pus. Harrison (RWF) but had to concede the fight in the third round. He was sent to the canvas and after staying there for a while. rose but was just too late In doing so he had been counted out.
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FOR CHINA
Fastest Of The Kind In
The World
London, April 16,
Four torpedo motor boats, the fastest of the kind in the world. are being completed by Messrs. John I. Thornycroft for the Chin-" ese Government.
"The first one was tested on the Thames at Greenhithe and exceeded fifty miles per hour, though carrying a heavier load than ordinarily required.
The boats are of mahogany, fifty | Chinese mechanics whe
were nye feet long with two twelve-specially sent to England for train- cylinder engines of D thousanding in management of the boats. In the Featherweight. Sgt. Hot horse power, a'so auxiliary charges, The remaining boats will be fin-
give croft (E. Lanes.) had to
machine guns, a wireless transmit ished very shortly. walk over to L/C Whelan (R.DRter and receiver. They will be cap- It is understood that they are
much larger craft.
similar to the four boats, recently built for Canton for use against pirates on
the West River and around the coast.— Reuter."
weight Open was soon over. Pte. Smith (E. Lancs.) "being knocked out in the first round by Fus. Mor gan (R.WF.).
Two boats have been finished and are expected to be despatched to China next week. probably under their own power, to familiarise the
SUBJECT: Cardiac Disease in charmingly unreal phraseology in due to medical orders. The Welterable at holding their own against for use on the Yangtze. They are
which these are so often described. Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the debate on foreign affairs asked suddenly whether, after all, "col- lective security," about which
Detailed results were as follow:--
Novices Lightweight everyone had
talking so
1 pretty Pte. Burns (E, Lancs.) beat Fus. SUBJECT: "Radiological Examina-much, was not just
And with that question Bray (R.W.F.) tin of the Upper Gastro-phrase. intestinal Tract with Special he let in a strong, disconcerting Fus. Ryan (R.W.F.) beat Pte. Caf- Reference to Duodenal Ticer". light upon a too frequent contem-frey (E, Lancs.)
Thursday, 23rd April (6 to 7 p.m.) LECTURED:-ir. I. Newton, Lecturer in Systematic Surgery and Officer in Charge "of
the Clinical Instruction at the Government Civil Rospital, SUBJECT: "The Treatment
*. Burns"
of
Friday, 24th April (6 to 7 pm) "Lacroaen:-Dr. J. A. R. Selby, Lecturer in Venereal Disease, University of Hong Kong." SUBJECT: To be notified later...
The course is free and open to all July qualified medical practitioners and so designed as to be of direct interest to those in general practice.
FOURTEENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of Share- bolders of the Hongkong Engineering | .... and Construction Company, Limited, will be held at the Uces of Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, Mer cantile Bank Building, Queen's Road (Central) Hong Kong, on Friday, the 17th April, 1936, at 12 o'clock (Noon), for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors And a Statement of Accounts for the Year ended on the 31st December, 1935, and electing Directors and
Auditors.
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The Transfer Books of the Com. pany will bo CLOSED from the 9th April to the 17th April, 1936, both daya inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
B. ALVES,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 1st April, 1936...
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THE HONGKONG, CANTON "AND" MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
L. T. RIDE, DEAM!
"Faculty of Medicine.
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GENEVA MEMORIAL TO WOODROW WILSON
Geneva, April 15.
A memorial will be erected on the terrace of the new £1,000.000, League of Nations headquarters on the shore of Lake Geneva
memory of the war-time President of the United States, the late Mr. Woodrow Wilson.
been
porary mental attitude.
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Open Lightweight Pte. Whitehouse (E, Lancs.) beat. Rin. McClay (R.U.R.)
There are far too many "pretty to-day, elevated to a phrases
Novices Welterweight moral stature to which they have
L/C Roberts (R.W.F.) received no right influencing the happiness, the prosperity, perhaps the lives of walk over from Rin. Millar (R.U. countless millions whe do not even R
knocked properly understand their mean- Ing. Pretty phrases would be harmless if they remained pretty
} phrases. It is when they enter the world of actuality that they be- come dangerous.
over
Phrase-making in drawing-rooms,
and In conference-halls dinner-tables is an exquisite game. whoever thought of the dictator ship of the proletariat," for exam- ple, had a genius for phrases;
H
whoever invented the spirit of Locarno" was a verbal wizard.
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Fus, Harrison (R.W.F.) out L/C Rothwell (R.A.B.C.)
Novices Middleweight
JAPANESE WARSHIPS TO VISIT TSINGTAO
General Han Fu Chu To Offer Welcome
MISSIONARIES WARNED TO FLEE
Ho Lung's Hordes On The March
Nanking, Apr. 18.
Pelping. Apr. 16. Seventy Japanese warships with British missionaries at Linking, 30,000 bluejackets on board under in northwest Yunnan, have been the command of Vice-Admiral K warned to seek safety, preferably Takahashi are due to arrive Tsingat Talifu, following the occupatior. Fus. Edwards (RWF) beat Pte. tao to-day and will later visit other of Lufeng, fifty miles northwest of ports along the China" coast. Yunnanfu, by 20.000 of Ho Lung': Taylor (E. Lancs)
Two of the ships will be engaged Reds. In dredging Taku bar near Tientsin. Other reports state that, Ho Lung's Other ships will be on permanen: | advance guards have reached the station in Tsingtao and Amoy........ Yangtse north of Yuanmow.—-
Router.
Rin. Reid (RUE) defeated Pte. Thistlewaite (E. Lancs.)
Novices Light-Heavyweight Gnr. Martin (RA) beat Rin. Brady (R.U.R.)
Pte, Carrul (E. Lanes) beat Gnr. Edgar (R.A.)
"Novices Heavyweight"
The coming of this fleet has caus- ed some surprise here. As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ne official notification of the arrival o
Pte. Harmsworth (E Lancs.) du- these ships, they will be asked no
to prolong their stay in Chinese feated Fus. Frimston (R.WF.)
ports for fear of creating misunder- standing.
Open Featherweight L/C Whelan (RU.R.) received a walk over from Sgt. Holcroft (E Lancs.)
But it is in the relation of the magle of words to commonplace reality that the peril comes. Men have always been willing and glad to live, to fight and to die for an, Ideal-but why should they make Fs. Owens (R.W.F. Beat D/M that effort and that sacrifice for Quilter (E. Lancs.) an idle phrase?
Otce upon a time, it may be recalled, the world was to be made safe for democracy; England was to be a land fit for heroes. There was a war to end war.
had their perilous slogans, too. Other spheres of activity have 11Class-consciousness has fomented a revolution; the solidarity of the tolling masses can rouse a cheer for the drearlest soap-box spouter. The memorial wil be in the form Not a" penny of the pay, not a of a bronze celestial globe, design-minute on the day sounds like a ed by a famous American Sculptor. toesin. through the history of more The cost of the erection will be than one prolonged industrial dis- borne by the Woodrow Wilson | pute. Foundation of America.
was
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Open Welterweight Fus. Morgan (R.W.F.) knocked out Pte. Smith (E. Lancs.)
MANCHU-MONGOL
CONFERENCE ·
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Moscow, April 16. Outer Mongolia has accepted However, Generai Han Fu-chu, with reservations Manchukuo's Chairman of the Shantung Frovin- proposals of April. 5 for
a con- ctal Government, has arrived a ference on Mongolan territory for Tsingtao to give à welcome to Ad- the arbitration of a differences miral Takabashi--
between the two countries. !nion News.
CANTON SEARCH SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL
FOR
MURDERER
Missing Servant Suspected
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, April 15.
In International politics since
Police detectives believe that one of the the War there has been evolved a Mr. Wilson
dictionary of fathers of the League of Nations. whole
phrases: there is no special difficulty in Heuter's Bulletin Service.
United Front against the Aggres tracking the murderer of the aer- sor; Standing by the Covenant: vant employed by Dr. Kan Chia- and-most facilely bewitching of hou, special delegate of the Minis- all-Collective Security.
try of Foreign Affairs. The miss- ing servant who is suspected to be the perpetrator of the crime; is a Shanghai man and does not speak Cantonese,
AMERICAN FACILITIES FOR NEW ZEPPELIN
The gilt on most of these has tarnished. Perhaps it does not say much for the collective wisdom of the world's leaders and statesmen that they continue to act as though they believed that the
Washington, April 15. The Navy Department has grant- ed permission for the giant airship, louder and more often you shout a Field Marshal von Hindenburg, thing the truer it is. to use Lakehurst landing ground for six months or & series nights which will test the feasibility o. a regular North Atlantle dirib-- ible service.
of
TOTICE is bereby given that the NOTIC
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEET. ING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Office, of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoris, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 22nd April, 1936, at Noon, for the
Lieut.-Commander, Peck U.S.N.. purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statement will trave. abroad the von Hinden-
of Accounts, and re-electing Directorsburg on all the voyages during the and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 16th April to the 22nd April, 1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 8th April, 1986.
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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
THE-Fifty-Sfth Ordinary General THE
Meeting of the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, Maasra, Jandine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 22nd April, 1986, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Beport of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The Transfer Becks of the Com-
pany will be OLOSED from the 15th April to the 5th May inclusive. .By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON&Co.,LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong 2nd April, 1936.
time she is using the Lakehurs! mooring mast and landing facili- tles-
Heuter.
FRENCH MINISTERS IN CONFERENCE
("Hong Kong Day Press" Specia")
Paris, Apr. 15.
A conversation between M. Baz- raut, M. Fiandin and M. Paul- Boncour on Wednesday night -ta determine the French attitude at the Committee of Thirteen, lasted over one hour, but no communique as to the result was issued.- Trasiocean' News Service.
ON WAY TO GENEVA
London, Apr. 15.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL
OF BURMA-
To Visit Canton And Other Cities
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The brother of the deceased, who was also stabbed, is in ä serious condition. He was wound- ed in the throat,
Several newspapers reported the crime, but the story was taken out last night. Hence the outrage is not published in the morning papers
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The motive of the crime is not known. It is believed that the dead servant was trying to oust the missing servant, who in his re- venge killed his colleague and his
Canton; April 16. Sir H. L. Stephenson, Governor-brother. General of British Burma, will
Members of
Details of the crime are not come on a visit to Canton by the available, as the police decline to end of this month. The authori- make a statement. ties here are taking steps to ex- Kan's household are equally silent. The wounded man stated that tend him a warm welcome upon his arrival. The Governor-Gen-his name is Kan, "while members eral will also visit other cities of of the Kan's household stated China besides Canton (Central their surname is Chu PTESS).
GENERAL CHIANG AT CHENGTU
Hankow, April 16. General Chiang Kai-shek, Chair-
EXTRALITY ABOLITION
IN MANCHUKUO
COUNCIL
Mr. Arnhold Re-elected
Chairman
Shanghai, Apr. 18.
Mr. H. E. Arnhold has been re- elected Chairman of the Shanghal
Municipal Council,
The Goverriments have algo agreed to exchange diplomatic re- presentatives.
Manchukua has ro replied · to the Outer Mongolian note up to the present--- steutor."!
CALCUTTA RESIDENT'S
DEATH
The funeral of Mr. John Mac- Leod, whose death was reported in our columns yesterday took place last evening at the Protestant Cemetery.
the Incidentally in neighbouring cemetery, the Mo- hammedan Cemetery, the remains of the last Mr. A. Rauf of Messra. Johnson, Stokes and Master were interred. His death occurred yes- terday morning quile suddenly.
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The monthly committee meeding of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce was held at the Chamber's Headquarters yesterday to the afternoon, when owing death of the Chairman, the late Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, the Vice- Chairman, Mr. Li Bing Kui took the chair.
Page
Pickpockets were busy at Caro- line on Wednesday afternoon dur- Ing the football match between South China A. A. and the Chinese Page 6. Athletic.
The action brought by Chan Tam-kwal, an elder or Tal Tong village, Ping Chau island, claim→ ing $1,000 damages for alleged malicious prosecution, was con- tinued before Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden at the Summary Court Page 6. yesterday.
With three previous convictions registered against her, Chan Yun, 41, married woman, was sentenced to two weeks' and one month's hard labour, consecutively, by Mr. Macfadyen at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when she admitted charges of stealing two bars of soap, a box containing 500 "Stag" cigarettes and two tins of con- densed milk from different shops. Detective-Sergeant J. Headbridge prosecuted
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concert
WELS.
An entertaining
Audrew's given last night at St. Church Hall when FL three-act Page T. play was given.
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The Royal Engineers and East Lancs. are playing, their second day Cricket to-day on the KC.C. ground in the final of the Inter Unit League.
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IMPORTS INCREASE
London, April 15. Preliminary figures of Overseas Trade in March show a substan-
and 2. cial increase in imports small increase in exports.compar- ed with March 1935.
Last month exports amounted to £36,510,000 compared with £35,111,000 the month before and £35,952,,000 3 year
Re- .280. exports were £5,900,000 agaisnt Mr. Charles L. Johnson, High | £6,851,000 and £4,472,000 respec- Sheriff of Calcutta, who was Pre-tively and the value of imports
Calcutta. April 16.
Mr. C. S. Franklin (American"re- presentative) has been elected Vice-sident of the Calcutta Turf Club Chairman.
Réutez
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for many years, died to-day.-- Beuter's Bulletin Service.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
A woman, Lam Yu-lan, residing, the Kowloon Hospital suffering at 14 Tai Yuen Street, was admit- from injuries received in a fight ed to the Government Civil Hos- with other coolies, pital suffering from injuries sald to have been received in a fight with They apparently her husband. quarrelled over family affairs.
A small fire broke out at the National Lacquer and Paint Com- pany, Shaukiwan Road, on Wed-! nesday afternoon, but was extin- guished by the folds before the ar- rival of the Fire Brigade. The fre was caused by oil overheating. and setting some wood aflame.
Sub-Inspector G. W. Moreton, Instructor at the Police Training Detective Sub-Inspector School,
L.R. Whant and Detective Bergeant H. J. Baldwin are proceeding on Home leave aboard the P. and O. liner Naldera on Saturday.
Sergeant Farquhar has trans ferred from West Point Police Station to the Guards Office "vice"
(“Hong Kong Dally Press" Special) Police Bergeant W. McLeod, who is
shortly going on leave. Hsingking, April 15.
if
In
Chan Ngau, 45, coolie, was ad- mitted to the Kowloon Hospital suffering from injuries received while at work at No. 5 godown, Holt's Wharf,
A cable addressed to Harriet Auty National City Bank from Beverley Hills, Cal.. is lying un- claimed at the offices of the E.E. Telegraph Co., Ltd.
The Hon. "Treasurer of the So- ciety of St. Vincent de Paul ac knowledges with grateful appre- clation and thanks the receipt of a donation to the Society's Funds from "Two Sharebrokers” of $20.- 00.
"Father G. Byrne, B., will give an unprofessional talk before the Hong Kong University Medical Bo- clety at 5.30 p.m., m the Assembly Room on Wednesday, April 22, 1936,****
Union
"A lecture on 'A New Method of Illumination by Mr. H. Martin, M.LEE, will be given ón, Friday, April 17, at 8.30 p.m. in Room K, Hong Kong University.*
was £68,052,000 compared with £62,317.000 in February and £60,- 507,000 in March 1935.-- British Wireless.
MORE TROOPS FOR EAST AFRICA
Thong Nong Daly Press" SpeciMA
Rome, April 15. Beveral troop transports for East Africa left immediately after the, Easter holidays. Among them, the "Lombardia," carrying 2,400 sol- dlers and 1,500 workers as well as ammunition of all kinds.
In each of the two north Italian towns Allessandria and Placenza artillery batteries are ready to start. In Noia, the Crown Prince bade farewell to a strong artillery section just on the point, of leav- Ing.
Transocean News Service.
CATAPULT STEAMER
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LAUNCHED
(Hong Kong Dally Presa" Speciall
Kiel, April 15. The third catapult steamer, and the first of the newly built type for the regular airmail service over the Bouth Atlantic, was launched here on Wednesday, and received the name "Ostmark."
It will be remembered that the "Deutsche Lufthansa," since spring One case of Enteric Fever and 1934 has maintained a permanent, four cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever regular and entirely efficient air- were reported to the Health Au-mail service between Germany, and horties for the 24 hours ended on south America, and for this pur- Wednesday,
pose has used two floating landing stages, the "Westphalen" and the were From the North German Lloyd-Schwabenland, which we hear that the report that all formerly passenger steamers, but passenger places have been booked were rebuilt and equipped suit- up till the end of this year was only for this purpose. The motor- presumptious. Although there are ship Schwabenland" will be need- a great number of advance book-ed shortly for the first experiment ings, there are atil places availat the regular Transoceanid aire able, and the fact that already service across the North Atlantis Mong To, a conservancy street advance booking for 1937 has been The Ostmark will make her maid- coolte foreman, and Woo Kin, made is usual with all shipping ea voyage on May 15-
Transocean News Servier coolle foreman, were admitted to companies.
The partial abolition of the man of the Military Affairs Com exterritorial privileges so far en- mission and,concurrently Presidentjoyed by foreign residents of the Executive Yuan, has arrived Manchukuo are announced by the at Chengtu, the Provincial capital Foreign Office for July 1. On that day all foragn residents, including of Szechuen,
In connection with the discovery Commanders of the anti-Red Japanese residents' will lose their
dollar other of forged Treasury one fores to-day called on General taxation privileges and Chiang and reported to him the economic rights enjoyed until notes, the Police have arrested a Chinese woman who is alleged to "The Foreign Secretary left Lon-progress of the campaign. Some now..
It is furthermore announced have had three in her possession that from next year all foreigners, The woman will probably appear including Japanese nationals will at the Central Magistracy this be put under loca: jurisdiction. morning. fits means that in future natives and foreigners will have exactly the same rights Transocean News Service.
donen route for Geneva this after- of the officers arrived at Chengtu nicon. To-morrow Mr. Eden will by airplanes from the Shansi and attend the League's Committee of Shensi front, Thirteen when its Chairman, M. It is understood that General Madariaga will report on his con- Chiang will fly to Yunnanfu next versations to day with Baron week, as the Reds are still active
in Northern Yunnan Aloist
Union News. [4388 British Wireless,