ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG AND SHANGHẢI HOTELS, LTD.
NOTICE is hereby given that an
Extraordinary General Meeting of The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Limited, will be bold at the Second Floor, Exchange Building, Des Vouz Road, Central, Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong on Wednesday, the 27th day of May. 1996, at 11:30 o'clock in the forenoon (immediately after the close of the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Company) for the purpose of copsidering, and, if thought fit, passing the subjoined Resolution as a Special. Resolution,
That the Capital of the Company be Reduced from $18,000,000,00 divided into 1,500,000 shares of $10.00 each to $11,250,000.00 divided. into 1,500,000. Shares of $7.50 each, and that such reduction be effected by cancelling Capital which has been lost, or is unrepresented by available assets, to the extent of $9.50 per Share #pou each of the 1,199,767 Shares of the Company which have been issued, and by reducing the nominal amount of all the Shares in the Company's Capital from $10,00 to $7.50 per Share.
Duted this 24th day of April, 1938
By Order of the Board,
F. U. BARRY,
Secretary,
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
THE Fifty-fil Ordinary Generi Meeting of the Shareholders' will be held at the Offices of the undersigned on Thursday, the 21st May, 1986, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with statement of Accounts for the year
ended the 31st December, 1935.
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The Share Register and Transfer Books will be CLOSED from the 7th to the 21st May, 1936, both days inclusive.
BIRTH
FINDLAY SMITH-On April 15, 1938, at 13, Kent Terrace, Re- gent's Park, N.W.1, to Beryl (nee Earle), wife of Egmont
Smith-a Findlay
daughter
(Katharine Gloya).
WEDDING
LANDER-WEALE-On April 18.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6. 1936.
FASHIONS FOR WOMEN
CANTON CRUSADE
(From Our Special Correspondent) Scores of - fashionably dressed women were "arrested this after- noon by the police for dressing a Rey Glavogue. The objection is that their clothes show their bare arms and legs and give out the bodily curves. Several buses are cruising the streets to take in the smartly attired young ladles.
1938, at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin Monken Hadley, by the Lord Bishop of St. Albans, assisted by the Richardson, Hugh Neville Heath. second son of the late Rt. G. H. Lander, D.D., former ly Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, and of Mrs. Lander, Ravenscroft Park, Barnet, to Mary Grace, only daughter of Mr and Mrs. R. R. Weale, Willoughby. Hadley Common, Herts.
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RAILWAY BONDS
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IN CHINA
Honan Offer Well Received
London, May 5. The Honan Railway offer, which the "Times" calls welcome news, 13 generally well received in the city. Bonds appreciated about two points on the news and were very tightly held.
AMERICAN LEGATION
ABANDONED
Heroic Defence Before
British Rescue
Washington, May 4.
The American Minister at Addis Ababa has made an urgent appeal to the State Department to request The "Financial Times" draws at the British Government's assist tention to a better tendency in ance in holding the American lega- Three weeks ago, the police au- thorities Kave warning against Chinese Railway loans from the tion against rioters. those up-to-date clothes for wo-
beginning of the year, stimulated The Legation is occupied by Mr. men, which are deemed contrary to
by the Tientsin-Pukow settlement. Engert, the Minister, his wife and good morals. The high militarying the cancellation of four-afths of a fierce surprise attack this Financial circles, though regret-six of his staff. It was the object of the arrears, endorse the Chinese morning.
recomi- bondholders committee's mendation of acceptance since the terms are the best obtainable,
leaders here and the police au- thorities object to the stunning style imported from Shanghai. The ladies say that their clothes are fashionable, but the police, Insist that they are "queer."
Tel. 24511.
For several nights, the municipal London Office: 53. Fleet Street broadcasting station gave out ad-
E.C. 4.
dresses on the necessity of having decent clothes. Fashionable dames declare that up-to-date creations are comfortable and cool How- ever, the police will stand no non- sense and arrest those who are shockingly dressed.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, MAY 6, 1936.
THE LAST TWO MILLION
This planet will not be decently habitable until a dozen or so of the
worst diseases have been stamped out for good. Cancer, consump- tion, cholera, the venereal diseases, plague: probably most of these and others could be rounded up in a few generations if there were the will to do it and the necessary diversion
The offer is regarded as evidence of better conditions in China and her determination to rehabilitate credit despite the protracted troublesome years in contrast with the default. of other countries in better elrcumstances.
It is pointed out that the Honan offer is better than Tientsin-Pukow Inasmuch as it has equity in Tao- tou-Chinghua earnings which at present. however, have no means of
All is well in Canton, hence the suthorities have time to look into the fashions for women. Accord-being assessed and on the other
hand do not enjoy
Customs ing to the government prescribed style, sleeves have to be long, and
| quarantee.---
Wender. pants or trousers have to cover the knees. Diaphanous clothes are de- cidedly unbecoming, in the opinion of the puritan officials,
a
BALKAN ENTENTE
APPROVAL
Position Of Greece As Member
of popular interest from war and Hong Kong Daily Press" Special) similar anti-social
amusements.
That one of the most ancient of all bodily curses is even now pass- ing this year's report of the Bri- tish Empire Leprosy Relief Associa tion gratefully reminds us. In JARDINE, MATHESON&CO.,LTD., safely sanitarian England it is pos-
General Agents, Hong Kong 30th April, 1936.
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sible to read about leprosy with the agreeable detachment some of our descendants may possess in reading about cancer. With us the scourge has long gone, and only a few odds and ends of architectural detall- the lepers windows, for example, in some of our churches-still sur- vive to recall to us the social isole- tion and personal wretchedness in which only a few years ago at least two million subjects of the Empire were still living. In its full form
colonies.
RAFT Programmes and Entry
for the
Fifth Extra Race Moeting, to be held on SATURDAY, 18th May, 1936, (waather permitting), may be obtained as the Secretary's Ocn, Exchange Building; the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Clab; the Sports Club and leper the Stables, Shan Kwong Road... brought into
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON modern knowledge and on THURSDAY, 7th May, 1938. needs, a growing band of trained
By Order,
workers, and, finally, Sir Leonard Rogers's discovery of the curative properties of hydrocarpus oll. All three weapons are being used with
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ALLEGED ASSAULT BY CONSUL
Kuomintang Urges Protest" To Britain
consonance
Athens, May 5.
The Balkan Conference now in
session at Belgrade approved the Greek standpoint that Greece as a member of the Balkan Entente is not in a position to enter into any obligations outside the Balkans. — Transocean News Nerais co
DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES
(“Hong Kong Daly Fress" Special)
Madrid, May. 42
The storm on Chürches and Con- vents in Madrid and the suburbs,
QUO TAI CHI AT PALACE
Credentials Presented To The King
London, May 5, The Chinese Ambassador. Mr. Que Tal-chl presented his creden- tials to the King in accordance with diplomatic usage on the ac- cession of a new sovereign. The Royal carriage was sent to the Embassy to convey Mr. Quo Tal-chi accompanied by the Counsellor" to the Embassy, Mr. W. C. Chen to Buckingham Palace.
The Ambassador remained for some time in conversation with His Majesty, who congratulated him on the outstanding success of the Chinese exhibition.- Renter
CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRIA
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special
Vienna, May 4.
the rellef association began in 1924, organised by the Left Wing Extre- Its chief weapons were the trail-miste, continues with unabated vio- tonal system of segregation in lence, fire having been set on A memorandum concerning the
humanised and Monday to five churches in the
recent introduction of "Compulsory suburbs of Tetuan, and Charmar-Federal Service" has been publish with native, as well as to the convents anded by the Austrian Government
schools at Ollar gad Covadonga. here on Monday. and the church in the Cuatro Ça-| minos suburb and the Balesian mo- nastry in Madrid self. In none of these cases were the fre" bri- gades able to do more than to pre-
the
Such service, according to the Memorandum, differs from compulsory military service and if the new law speaks of "service" this only means" that the law at- the confiagration Krom thorises A certain number of spreading to the neighbourhood. "Federal Service Conscripts" to be A attempt to burn down the given into military training with charch "de los Maravillos" proved, views of the defence of the Father- however, unsuccessful- Transocean News Service.
ever-increasing, success. Beeds of the tree from which hydnocarpus | vent oll is obtained have now been sent to every leprosy-ridden colony with a suitable climate; the cost of the Infections is only half a crown a year for each patient. From Ain- ca, India, the East and West In- dies come reports of the progress that is being made and of the still greater progress that could be Shanghai, May 5,
made but for the everlasting lack The storm of indigation aroused of adequate funds. In an age by an alleged assault committed, teeming with competitive good
by Mr. H. I. Harding, British Con- causes this also deserves support, sul at Yunnanfu on April, 25, on!
ore American and two Chinese! scoutmusters has resulted in the ocal Kuomintang petitioning Nan- king to protest diplomatically to Britain. demand the recall and prosecution of Mr. Harding. and an official apology,
INDEPENDENT CUSTOMS
Japanese Terms For Co-operation
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SOCIALIST VIEWS
land.
The Memorandum goes on to say that in the Government's view the most important provision of the new law are those relating to na- tional education The Document
SPANISH PLOT TO"
"KILL PREMIER
closes with the solemn assurance that the Government, in institut ("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)ing compulsory Federal Service had" Paris, May. 4. been actuated solely by peaceful "The Socialist Party is prepared and purely defensive aims.
Transocean News Service to form and lead a Government of a "Popular Front" writes the 80- cialist leader, Leon Blum in a ape- elal edition. of his paper. "Popul- aire," thereby clearly giving to understand that the Socialists-- who are officially known as the "French section of the Workers' In- ternational"—will demand the post. of Premier for one of their party. Tientsin, May a
Political circles believe that the su ate garden for scouting purposes. Behinent of an independent cus- *It is understood that the estab-
Sarraut Cabinet will remain in of -Reuter.
toms administration for. Northce until the new Chamber meets, China is the math issue in the pro- but this is still uncertain. In the tracted Sino-Japanese negotiations meanwhile the victory of the Left here for settlement of outstanding Wing has been increased in conse questions. The Japanese are re- quence of the results of the three ported to have intimated, their election in the colonies, where in Nanking, May 5 inabfity to co-operate with the
two cases the independent Socia- lists, and in the third case the Ra- The National Government is to-Chinese to suppress smuggling un-
dical Bocialista gained victory. ---- day announcing the new draft less an independent customs 18
Transocean News Service. constitution.
The incident occurred when the trio approached Mr. Harding and asked permission to use the Con-
NEW DRAFT
Political circles emphasise the announcement does not mean "pro- mulgation" of the constitution, as it still has to be approved by the National Peoplea Assembly, which meets November 12,
established. Kruter
CHIANG RETURNS
FROM TOUR
ARAB DISORDERS
Jerusalem, May S. The: Arabe strike at Jana is still Nanking, May 3. continuing and traffic in the town General Chiang Kai-shek return- | is almost at a standstill. At Halfa ed from a tour up river this mora- 250 marines have been landed to ing it, before the deliberations of ing. He travelled from Kluklang assist in extinguishing a fire in a Assembly to Wuhu by the gunbost Yangmai | timber Fard, set alight by an Arab the National Peoples"
and completed the journey by car... | mob.—
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
It is stated the constitution" 15 being announced in order to give the public an opportunity of study.
Commence. Reuter.
Reuter..
Madrid, May. 5. Seven persons have been arrest- ed in connection with a plot to as- sassinate the new Prime Minister, Benor Azana. '
The occupants returned the fre of the mob and repulsed the at- tackers, killing one.
Mr. Engert had formerly inform-
ed the State Department that he
and his staff would transfer to the British Legation if the situation did not improve.
Mr. Engert states that with the help of a British Indian Lewis gun section the American Legation could hold out against the 'Hoters "if the Italians arrive within a few days"
Ababa to send a convoy to evacu- ate the Americans,
NEWS SUMMARY
A concubine, Leung Tse-ying. 20, whose husband is the headmaster of a commercial college in Awntow, was bound over in a personal bond of $200 by Mr. Balfour at the Cen- tral Magistracy yesterday on charge of assaulting two girls. Leung Sam, 3, and Leung Hing. 6, on April 29 by beating them with a feather duster.
Page 6.
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It is with regret that we have to Mr. Hull's statement follows:
record the death of Mr. George "In view of yesterday's attack Jamieson Chambers, Senior Land- on the Turkish Legation and to-Hall. Public Works Department. day's attacks on the French, Bel- which took place on Monday at glan and American Legations. and Selaya, in Belgium. - Page 7.
the face that the American Lega- tion is not prepared for adequate
accepted." defence, the British offer has been
The announcement gave the first information of attacks on the French and Belgian Legations- Reuter
GRIM DEFENCE
Washington, May 4.
A graphic story of the defence of the American Legation was told by the American Minister at Addis Ababa in a wireless message to the State Department to-day.
sor-
impending departure of Mr. Oscar Many residents will regret the B. Raven, of the firm of Raven and
Basto, architects and engineers, who is leaving for England on Saturday. In order to take up an appointment with the Admiralty.
Page 7.
A protest against the delay in bringing female prisoners from the Laichikok Prison was made by Mr. c, D'Almada at the Central Police Court yesterday when Wong Kuen. 27, married woman, appeared bê- fore Mr. S. F. Balfour on a remand
"We fought off the raiders thanks to the loyalty of our native vants. including the cooks, who, charge of possession of 3.400 herðin He asked the State Department when the "attack began immedi- pills at 4. Wing Kut Street, first to transmit his request to the Briately rushed to defend the
Page 6. with only a few revolvers, spears tish Foreign Office as he was un- able to keep in touch with the Bri- and swords. They held them until tish Legation. The State Depart-the rest of us arrived with pistols junction of Queen's Road Central
and shotgurs.
ment
immediately telephoned
Whitehall.
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gates floor.
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A sequel to an accident at the
"We made a much greater show A later message, from Mr. En-1 numbers than the attackers ex- gert, sent at 6 p.m. Addis Ababa pected.
time, reported the situation had becorne worse.
Two of the native servants of the Legation had been wounded in the slege.
The Legation staff was now be- Ing assisted in the defence of the building by an Italian sub- machine-gun,, obtained from Ethiopian policeman who took re- fuge in the Legation.-- Reuter.
ORDER TO EVACUATE
Washington, May 4. Following reports by wireless from the United States Minister at Addis Ababa that the Legation has been besleged for hours by a fierce mob
Ethiopiana Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State. has ordered the Legation's abandonment.
of
The Minister had previously ask- ed Washington to urge the British Government to tell the British Le- gation in Addis Ababa of his plight, and to request assistance from Sir Sidney Barton.. British Minister.
At the start of the attack bal- lets narrowly missed Mrs. Engert, my wife, and John Spencer. Ameri- can adviser to the Ethiopian Gov. ernment, who were in the back yard of the Legation when the rear gates." attackers opened a heavy fire
the
on
to
Mr. Engert adds that owing rains things slightly improyed dur- ing the afternoon.-
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and Wellington Street on the afternoon of April 19, when private car ran into the traffic post at the junction and knocked down the Shantung constable on duty, was, the appearance before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy yesterday, of K. Higashi, a Japan- ese dentist, residing at No. -38 Village Road, third floor, on a sun- mops for driving private car No. |1429 without due care and caution. Page 6.
The closing addresses of the solicitors in the claim by Fung Kul- MESSAGE RELAYED
hot for the return of $1,000 against Lendon, May 5. the National City Bank of New The appeal of the American Le-York and one of the bank's former gation at Addis Ababa for British employees, Lai Sin-chow. were assistance has now reached the beard by Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden British Legation in the Ethiopian at Supreme Court yesterday. capita,
he urgent message was broad- cast from the American Legation, only four miles from the British. picked up t Washington, tele- phoned to London, and relayed back to the British Minister. Siz Sidney Barton, at Addis Ababa.
states The Foreign Office
the request has been transmitted, ask- ing the British Minister to "do all you can to help."
Renter.
ORDER TO ABANDON
Washington, May 4.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
A dinner dance will be held at Repulse Bay Hotel to-day at 8.30
p.m.
Mr. Hul's order, flashed back to the U. 6. Minister, Mr. Engert, followed the receipt of information from the British Foreign Office
Ja One case each of Small-Pox and that the British Legation at Addis
Enteric Fever were reported to the Ababa; manned by only a handful
Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of Health Authorities for the 24 hours of Sikh soldiers and British officers, was unable to spare a detachment State, has ordered the American ended on Monday. to assist in the defence of thr | Legation at Addis Ababa, at pre- US Legation..
seat beleaguered by bandits, to be abandoned. The British Government had in-
the Minister at Add's Reuter structed
FLIGHTS TO THE
CAPE
↑ ARMY COMMANDER'S
DEATH
Berlin, May 5, London, May 4.
General von Falkenhausen, who Amy Mollison left Gravesend Air-
commanded a section of the Ger- port to-day at 9.03 h.m. on another
man Army in Alsace-Lorraine dur- attempt to break the England-to-ing the Great War, and who was Cape record, using the same plane later made Governor of Belgium, as she crashed in on her recent died to-day.- Reuter attempt. She reached Oran at 40.5 p.m. (local time).
H. L. Brook, holder of the Aus- tralia-England solo fight record, also set out to-day on a flight to the Cape intended to demonstrate the capabilities of light aeroplanes he is flying a Hillson Praga for long distance fights. He left Lympne Aerodrome just after 2.30
Amish Wirelean.
p.m.- +
·SAHARA CROSSED
Nizzer, Máy
Mrs. Amy Mollison landed here The murder was to have taken
in French West Africa at 6.30 am. place at a big meeting where the
after an all-night flight of 1.500 Premier was, to attend. But the miles across the Sabara after teav programme was cancelled. "unex-ing Oran yesterday. She know pectedly.—
welt ahead of schedule- Reuter Bulletin Service.
Reuter.
HOME CRICKET RESULTS
WAFDIST VICTORY
Cairo, May 5,
The return showing the number of cases of Notifiable Diseases which have been notified as having occurred in the Colony of Hong Kong during the week ended May are as follows: "Smint-Pox one death. Diphtheria two deaths, In- teric Fever four cases, three deaths, Measles one death, Cerebro-8pinal Fever five cases, four deaths, Puer- peral Fever one death, Tuberculosis (Not notifiable) 40 deaths.
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It has been decided that the two' hew Singapore III nying-boats, K 6910 and K 6911, which are to rein- force No. 205 (F.B.) Squadron at Singapore, will ay out via Gibraltar instead of via Berre.
Rev. F. C. Cram, B.A., of the The elections have resulted in Methodist Church, Hankow, has an overwhelming victory for the been appointed officiating minister Wafdist party, which secured 163 to Methodist, Baptist, and Congre- seats in the Chamber against 54gational personnel of the Royal for all six other parties combined.-Navy at Hankow, in place of Rev. Reuter's Bulletin Serviók, –
E. C. Franklin,
MEMORANDUM TO GERMANY
More Information On Peace Proposals
Beveral people were admitted to the Government Civil Hospital re- cently with injuries received in various accidents. Wong Fu, .69, a Dairy Farm coolle was injured. when an iron bed fell on him at Wellington Etreet, Wong Lat Kin London, May 5, à female child aged 10, was knock- The British memorandum on the ed down by an unknown motor car German peace proposals is expected in Queen's Road West. to be despatched to Berin to- morrow. The document which is
Lam Ning a boy aged 7, Hving lengthy, exceeding 2,000 words, is at No. 454, Reclamation Street was HINDENBURG ON designed to obtain fuller informa- | knocked down by motor car | No. tion from the German Government 2301 in Nathan Road and was ad- TRIAL FLIGHT
on the interpretation of a number mitted to the Kowloon Hospital. London, May 5.
of their proposals in such manner Mók Wai Chuen, a woman aged 25, Worcestershire heat Al-India by ("Hỏng Kong Daily Peras" Special)
an to show Britain's desire to clear was also admitted to the Kowloon three wickets at Worcester. All-
the ground for actual negotiations Hospital suffering from" severe in- Ind'a 150 (Perks 5 for 37): Worces-
Friedrichshafen, May. 4.. in which Britain, France, Belgium juries which she received when she tershire 134 for 7 (Human 68 not After three weeks of rest, during and Germany might take part, fell from the second floor of No, out, Mohamed Nissar fi for 30). which time the engines were over" The delay in despatching the 205, Laichikok Road,
Yorkshire beat the M.C.C T hauled completely, the airship "Hin-British memorandum to Germany | ✨ -
Chen Ting, a coolle of the Kow- Lord's by eight wickets. M.C.C. 170 denburg" has taken off for a trial will make it difficult for a reply to (Smalles 5 for 63) and 168 (Hen-night on Monday afternoon, and be received in time for any general loon Docks was treated for injuries. dren 75, Smalles & for 64): York-will stay in the air till after mid-discussion of European security at received when he was assaulted by shire 200, and 68 for 2--
night.
the League Councf next week.- other..coolles of the Docks with Beutes.
British Wireless.
hammers.
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