NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS, LIMITED
NOTICE
ALTERATION OF FARES
Commencing 1st June 1936, until further notice, FARES
will be as follow
On Kennedy Town or Whitty Street Cars
1st Class 3rd Class
6 cents
3 cents
On Causeway Bay or Happy Valley Cars
い
On Western Market and Shauki wan Cars
On Western Market and Quarry Bay Cars On Shaukiwan Cars between Causeway Bay 10 cents and Western Market or vice versa
Between Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay or
Shankiwan
Sailors and Soldiers in Uniform-All routes. Children under 12 years of age-All routes i
5 cents
L
MONTHLY TICKETS—Available on All Cars at
CASH TICKETS-Books of
5 cents
All times $6 per month. (3 ceni) Tickets on Sale at the (5 cent)
Company's Office.
Hong Kong, 26th May, 1936.
NOTICE
LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTEENTH OR. DINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in Exchange Building, Hong Kong, n SATURDAY, 6th JUNE, 1936, at 11 o'clock a.m.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 29th MAY to 6th JUNE,
1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. W. BROWN,
Manager. Hong Kong, 26th May, 1936.
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THE SHEK O DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD..
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 15th Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders will be held at the Registered Office, York Building, Hong Kong, on Tuesday, 9th day of Jane, 1936, at 5.15 p.m.
By Order of the Board, F. G. MAUNDER,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 20th May, 1936.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
157
F. H. GLOVER Acting General Manager
NOTICE.
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We hereby notify the public that we are removing our offices and showroom from the Glouces ter Building to York Building, Chater Road as from the 1st. June, 1936.
SCHMIDT & CO.
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THE HONG KONG AND
SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936.
DEATHS
CHEEK-On May 20, 1986, at the
family residence. 70 Amherst | Avenue, Shanghai, Augusta Heacock Cheek, beloved wife of M. C. Cheek, died of pneumo- nia, after a short illness. .. RUTH-On May 20, 1938, at the Shanghai General Hospital, Charles, Ruth, aged 56 years, U.S. Navy, retired.
THE DERBY
Probable Starters And Jockeys
London, May 28. The following are the probable
| starters and jockeys for the Derby to be run at Epsom Downs to- morrow:-
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E.C. 4.
The Daily
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Press.
Noble King His Grace Walvis Bay Magnet Raeburn
Hosa Kano, Mar 27, 1936,
HINDRANCES TO
ARMY
RECRUITING
By far the most serious problein that the Government has to solve in increasing our power for defence The is the finding of the men, money has been or will be made avaliable: the material required is within the capacity of four fac- tories. But the necessary number of recruits is not forthcoming in spite of an intensive campaign to
obtain them. In the course of the next twelve months 35,000 men will be required to fill the ranks of a Regular Army which would then be substantially below the strength of that of 1913. In some directions recruiting is better than it was, but ! the number offering themselves is not sufficient to fill the gap. There is the paradox that with many thousands of young men unable to find regular employment in civilian life the Army does not appear to them an alternative. Much has been done by improvement of pay. JOTICE is hereby given that an
by the teaching of trades, the en- Extraordinary General Meeting couragement of sport, greater of The Hongkong & Shaoghai Hotels, facilities for leave and for recrea- Limited, will be held at the Secondtion. to make life in the ranks more Floor, Exchange Building, Des Voeux attractive in itself and a prepara- Road, Central, Victoria in the Colony tion for re-entry into the industrial of Hong Kong on Wednesday, the world under advantageous condi- 27th day of May, 1936, at 13.30 tons, Seventy-six per cent. of the o'clock in the forenoon (immediately" after the close of the Ordinary Yearly men leaving the Army educational Meeting of the Company) for the training centres find immediate purpose of considering, and, if employment. Yet young men seek- thought fit, passing the subjcined ing a career avoid the Army. Resolution as a Special Resolation.
No
Mahmond
COLBERT
ACQUITTED
AT TRIAL
Court Gives Him Benefit
Of Doubt
(Dines)
Tientsin. May 26. (Dick) Dr. John William Colbert, Ame- (Weston)rican physician, was acqul.ted to- (Marshall)
day in the United States Court for (Beary) China on charges of administering (Elliott) polson in food, drink and medicine (Perryman) to his wife in an attempt to mur- Harry Wragg) der her.
PERSONAL
Miss Vicki Baum, author of "Grand Hotel” arrived · in Hong Kong earlier in the week and left yesterday by the J.CJL. liner Tisadane for Ball.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
A dinner dance will be held at Repulse Bay to-day at 8.30 p.m.
certain batch of hepatex and to replace the ampules, of which one was among the ampules supplied to Dr. Colbert, which he collected. Chang Fat, a P.W.D. coolle fore- man. reported the Police that at FRENCH DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE
9.30a.m. on Monday, seven P.W.D. The greater part of the proceed-coolies were driving a hand-truck Ings to-day was taken up by the down Centre Street when the truck (Lowrey) Judge Helmick said that the evidence of the next witness. Dr. skidded and knocked down a wo- (Carslake) | Court entertained strong suspicions | Lataste, the French director of the man who was admitted to the
(Strett)
Government Civil Hospital with severe head injuries,
Taj Akbar..... (Gordon Richards) Bala Hissar
(Jones) (Smirke) (Lane) (Arthur Wragg)
Haulfryn Carioca Spinalot Mid-Stream
Thankerton
Fearless Fox
Belaethel
Boswell Ormstead Reuter,
(K. Robertson) (Fox)
(T. Burgs) (E. Smith) (Steve Donoghue) Pat Beasley) (No jockey)
MOST OPEN RACE
London, May 26. The Epsom Summer Meeting be- gins to-day and the race for the Derby takes place there to-morrow
afternoon.
Aga Khan's Taj Akbar remains favourite at 13 to 2 and Lord
Astor's Pay Up. wnner of the 2000
Guineas comes next at 100 to 15.
In the absence of further rain, the course will be firm, but in the opinion of experts it will not be too hard for horses in good con- dition.
The race is considered to be the
most open Derby for several years and, although many owners are hopeful. few seem: confiderit British Wireless.
HOME CRICKET
Wonderful Bowling
By Geary
SEVEN FOR SEVEN
of guilt, but it was not proved Leyond reasonable doubt, and it ta better to make a mistake in favour of the accused than against him," Reuter.
DEFENCE EVIDENCE
Tientsin. May 21. Several witnesses for the defence were called when the trial of Dr. John William Colbert, charged with having attempted to murder his wife by the administration of pol- son with food, drink, and medicine. was resurned in the United States Court for China to-day.
The first was.. Galya Weingart. Dr. Colbert's secretary, who testified; that five patients called between 11 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. on Novem- ber 23, when hepatex was delivered. Dr. Colbert, she said, had many charity patients, and often worked In the laboratory of his office, where he kept drugs, including acetanilde.
Accused, she added, did not possess a blast lamp, only a small alcohol lamp,
that they freely dispensed acetane- Two Russian chemists deposed
lide.. antifebrin. and antipyrine. antifebrin, they said, was much cheaper than aspirin, and produced quicker results.
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One of them, M. Tunik, declared that a fair number of Dr. Colbert's prescriptions reached him, but he remembered that only one of them required ant!tebrin.
The other. M. Gingeroff, testifled that he sold five lb, of acetanelde or antifebrin and six ib. of anti- recommended a compound of pyrine 2 year,
and generally acetanelide, aspirin, and phenace- tine, to clients complaining of headache.
That the Capital of the Company/employment has itself become more in his Beneft match at Hinckleysidered it impossible to extract an
Pasteur Laboratory at Tientsin, whose expert evidence differed considerably from that given by the experts called by the prosecu- tion.
Dr. Lataste declared that perni- elous anaemita could exist in China. although he himself had never come into contact with'such a case. The malady could last many years, with remissions. The colour Index ranged from 1.5 to 3, and he cited a case of 2.97 in France.
Pernicious anaemia 'could not be ruled out. An intravenous injec- tion of hepatex produced rapid re- sulta in the early stages. and ven- triculin yielded marvellous results.
Cyanosis, he admitted, was in- consistent with pernicious anaemia, but heart trouble was capable of producing
the
appearance cyanosis.
of
"It was difficult to reseal an ampule, but this was possible over. a kerosene lamp
:*
Tam Chow. a boller-maker at the Kowloon Ducks was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday with a crushed foot. The ballast weight of a crane crushed the foot while working. »
One case of Small-Pox and three cases of Enteric Fever were re- ported to the Health Authorities for the three days ended on Mon- day.
The Imperial Airways liner Dorado arrived in the Colony yeş- terday morning at approximately 11.20 a.m. carrying one passenger.
Dr. Falconer, who joined the ma- chine at Penang.
In honour of the 89th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Mary, war Excessive sport was capable of ships in harbour dressed overall producing dilation of the heart, of yesterday. A salute of 21 guns was which one symptom was cyanosis. Bred at noon by H.M.S. Tamar and which was curable by a rest, after men on the upper decks of H.M.
normal. which the heart would return to ships fell in at that time. The Japanese gunboat Saga was also Dr. Lataste admitted that the dressed overall, she and the US, size of Mrs. Colbert's heart, as auxiliary vessel Gold" Star being shown by an X-Ray picture," was the only foreign warships in har- nearly normal. He examined Mrs.tour. The Gold Star arrived yes- Colbert on May 7, at the request of terday and will remain' here `until her husband, and reported his May 30. andings.
Witness was not familiar with acetanelide not having come into Acctane- cases requiring its use. lide. however, could not produce such blood as the picture taken on November 21 showed..
The s.3. "President McKinley” will arrive in Hong Kong earlier than her printed schedule thus enabling her to sail from Hong Kong for Manila one day ahead. This steamer is now scheduled to sall from Hong Kong on Friday"
SUFFERING FROM CYANOSIS Cross-examined, Dr. Lataste stat-evening May 29, to arrive in Mani- la on Sunday morning. May 31. ed that the patient had been
She will sail from Manila for Hong Kong on Monday evening, June 1 to arrive in Hong Kong on Wednes- day morning, June 3, salling from here for Seattle on schedule.
London, May 25.
The next witness, Mr. Ralph Eng-suffering "from cyanosis for six Six wickets for 36 and seven for
strom. testified that he supplied weeks on account of dilation of 7 runs was the record of G. Geary hepatex to Dr. Colbert. He con- the heart, and was unable to par
ticipate in sport for a year. He between Leicester and Warwick ampule without breaking the cello-
had not seen a case where it was Leicester won by one wicket. War-phane.
possible for a patient to play ten- wick 133 (Geary 6 for 36) and 18 A travelling agent had told hum nis, swim, and ride after one week (Geary 7 for 7): Leicester 108 that hepatex contained a small
Witness admitted that an in- crease of a million red cells after (Mayer 5 for 19, Hollies 4 for 19) quantity of potassium chloride.
one liver injection was extra- ordinary. N.C. Delly News.".
and 104 for 9 (Holles 6 for 39).
TOWNSEND 182 NOT OUT
Derby beat Bussex by an inrings
Engstrom went on to say that he had been instructed to recall a
NORTH CHINA SMUGGLING
One cause is that life without
bearable. Unemployment insurance be Reduced from $15,000,000.00
has removed the dread of hunger. divided into 1,500,000 shares of $10.00 each to $11,250,000.00 divided Even so, there can be no compari- into 1,500,000 Ebares of $7.50 each, son between the conditions of the and that such reduction be effected soldier, with all found and 14s a by cancelling Capital which has been week, to spend,, and the average, lost, or is unrepresented by available young man unable to find regular assets, to the extent of $2.50 per work. A second cause is that the Share upon each of the 1,198,267 public mind has not wholly shaken! Shares of the Company which have itself free of the habit of regarding and 25 runs. Derby 387 (Townsend been issued, bed by reducing the the soldier as in some way inferior, 182 not out): Sussex 129 (Copson nominal amount of all the Shares in Years during which we have been 5 for 42) and 233. the Company's Capital from $10.00 steadily reducing
military
KENT FARE BADLY to $7.50 per Share.
strength have not added to the
Yorkshire beat Kent by an in- Dated this 24th day of April, 1936, prestige of Army life. More potentnings and 153 runs. Yorks 299 for
still has been the effect upon the By Order of the Board,
7 declared (Barber 158): Kent 107 NANKING MEASURES minds of the young. and the (Verity for 20) and 39 (Verity 9 F. U. BABRY, mothers of the young, of a per- for 12).-
nicious pacifist propaganda that
Reuter, has too often represented the soldier as the enemy of the world's peace rather than its guardian. Vastly as life In the Army has been improved there are many small ways in which it can be bettered. The bigger reform, however, is in,
Secretary.
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THE HONG KONG AND
हो SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. (INCORPORATED IN Hoxe KoxG)
our
CHINESE MISSION
TO SIAM
Shanghai, May 26.
Nanking. May 26. According to reliable sources, a set of new regulations of eight articles has been adopted by the authorities for the prevention of smuggling in North China. They
are:-
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1. Na foreign goods are to be trans-
VAN ZEELAND AT HEAD
Belgian Cabinet Probabilities
JI
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Specia:
"Brussels, May 26. The next Belgian government will in all probability be again beaded by the present Premier. Van Zeeland, it being generally assumed that while the King will first call upon the Socialist leader Van der Velde to form a new
BODY FOUND IN POOL
Lad Reported Missing
Reported to the police on Mon- day as missing since 130 that afternoon, the body of Lo Bik-wal, aged 15. Was found yesterday afternoon in a pool at the base of A quarry at Morrison Hill Road. The lad had apparently been drowned. He was dressed in a singlet and shorts which' seems to bear out the theory that he was swimming at the time of his death."
The pool was about ten feet deep and was formed in a hollow which had been made by the
blasting operations in the quarry. The pool was formed through the recent heavy rains the water seep- ing through the rocks and gather-
The body was conveyed to the Victoria Mortuary.
The Chinese mission of enquiry ported by the Chinese railways. days a healthy, clean-fring young to Slam headed by Mr. Lin Ping, without proper certificates of the man, better educated than most representative of the Ministry of Customs. others of the class from which he Education, Mr. Lin Kang-hou, is drawn as engaged in an hon-
2. Customs Inspection offices will. Cabinet since the Social sts haveing in the hollow, prominent Shanghai businessman, į be established at the railway now become the stringest group in curable profession and performing and Mr. Yu-I-ming, representative stations of the Pelping-Tientsin, the Chamber, Van der Velde wi an absolutely necessary service for of the Foreign Office. left for Tientsin-Pukow, Pelping-Hankow, decline, it being well-known that Bangkok by the s Victoria at Peiping-Sulyuan, Nanking-Shang-'there is a strong movement in the In answering questions, in the 12.30 pm, to-day- House of Commons recently Mr. Beater.
the State.
Duff Cooper gave a qualified assent
to the idea of recruiting more boys
hai, Tsinan-Tsingtao, and Lunghai Railway.
3. Inspectors will be sent by the Customs to. inspect goods trans- ported at all the stations of the Peiping-Tientsin line.
Socialist party in favour a! Van Zeeland retaining his office in or- der to give him the opportunity to completely carry out his economic financial programme as well as the plan of political reform
سما
THE Ordinary General Meeting of OTICE 186 HEREBY GIVEN the hands of the public. It must the Shareholders in the above N that the Ordinary Yearly come to regard the soldier-noWE- Company will be held at the Com- Meeting of Shareholders of The pany's Offices, P. & U. Building, on Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Friday, the 29th May, 1986, at Noon Limited, will be held at the Register for the purpose of receiving the ed Office of the Company Exchange Raport of the General Managers Building, Des Voeux Road Central, together with Statement of Accounts to the 31st December, 1936. 27th day of May, 1936, at 11 am., Bong Kong), on Wednesday, the The Transfer Books of the for the purpose of receiving a State-
NATION BUILDING Company will be CLOSED from ment of Accounts and the Report of Tuesday, the 26th May to Friday, the the Board of irectors for the year
IN RUSSIA 29th May, 1988, both days inclusive. ended on the 31st December, 1935, DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & 00., and re-electing a Director and the
for the Army. No such expedient
Moscow, May 28. Auditors.
The drive to raise the birth rate General Managers.
should be necessary if the facts as The Transfer Books of the Com-regards Army life could be brought
Van Zeeland is said to be willing in Russia is beh nd the new legisla "Hong Kong, 15th May, 1936.
pany will be closed from Wednesday, home to the youths who have at-
form another Cabinet 0: tion drafted; making abortion the 18th May, 1936 to Wednesday,tained the normal age for entry.
National Union' on the condition criminal offence "and, subsidizing the 27th May, 1936, both daye with increasing mechanisation.
with 2,000 roubles an- that the Socialists will refrain mothers inclusive.
and the numerous specialised em-
Nanking, May 26.
from making any demanda for any ployments to which it gives, rise, The Executive Yuan has accepted
5. Customs inspectors will follow special privileges or in rease o the old monotony of the soldier's the resignation of General Hsu in the trains in discharging their
power. training has ceased. Probably the Yung-Chang, Chairman
of the duties. greatest factor in turning the eyes Bhansi Government, and appoint- 6. All baggage will be thorough of youth from the possibilities that ed Mr. Chao Tal-wen, formerly ly inspected at railway stations. the Army holds for them is pey-President of the Control Yuan, as chological. Rapid disarmament hie successor.-
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE
SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be hold (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 80th MAY and MONDAY, 1st JUNE, 1986, commencing at 2.00 P.M. respectively.
The Firat Bell will be rung at 1.30 P.M. on SATURDAY, and at 12 Noon on MONDAY.
By Order,
8. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary.
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Hong Kong, 25th May, 1986.
By Order of the Board, F. C. BARRY.
Becretary...
Hong Kong, 16th April, 1986. ..
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LOCAL MAPS
Peak District,
Kowloon,
Victoria, New Territories.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.
has induced the beiler that soldiers | Heuter.
no longer have a great part to play.
The country knows now how fallacious is that iden, and how
CHAIRMAN OF SHANSI
New Appointment
į.
4. The Customs inspectors will sign the certificates permitting the transportat on of those goods with. duties properly paid.
to
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3
nually for every child over seven per family, and 5,000 each for every child over eleven per family.
The number of kindergartens The Bocialists are expected to accept this condition with the ex-will be trebled to accommodate ception that they will demand the 2 400.000 children.
Divorces are now forbidden with- 1. Regulations govering the dis-presidency of the Chamber which
hitherto has been held by the out the cohrent of both parties- with the discovery of smuggling Catholic Deputy Foncelet, who. Prester. will be made public to the worker however, lost his seat at Banday's and staff members of the railways, elections-
Transocean News Sernica and,
tribution of rewards in connection
HISTORIAN DEAD
London, May 25.
urgent is the need to put ourselves over years are not to be removed in an adequate state of defence, in a day. To infuse the new spirit 8. At the request of the Customs, Official coldness towards the Ter- that will make men eager for ser- the railway authorities will detain ritorials, the impression' created on vice in the Regular Army and the goods for inspection..... the minds of civilian soldiers that Territorials will require time and The railway authorities and the they were not a vital part of the earnest work. By these we may local governments have promised military machine, accounts for avoid any form of that conscription the co-operation with the Cus much of the falling off in their which Mr. Baldwin has said he toms authorities for the preven-Robert Sungster. Rait, the well- numbers that is now recognised as would not consider without prior tion of smuggling- a national danger. Idean fostered appeal to the country,
L'nion News
The death has occurred of Sir
known Scottish historian.-- Reuter
U.S. PRESIDENCY CANDIDATE
leveland, May 25, Mr. Norman Thomas was to-day nominated Socialist candidate, for the United States presidency br an over-whelming vocal vote at the Socialist national convention... Router