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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
HONGKONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED
NOTICE
ALTERATION OF FARES
Commenting 1st June 1936, until further notice, FARES
will be as follow :---
On Kennedy Town or Whitty Street Cars On Causeway Bay or Happy Valley Cars On Western Market and Shauki wan Cars On Western Market and Quarry Bay Cars On Shaukiwań Cars between Causeway Bay and Western Market or vice versa Between Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay or Shaukiwan "Sailors and Soldiers in Uniform-All routes
Children under 12 years of age—All routes |
1st Class 3rd Class
6 cents
3 cents:
10 cents
5 cents.
5 cents
MONTHLY TICKETS-Available on All Cars at
CASH TICKETS-Books of
All times $6 per month. 13 cent) Tickets on Sale at the (5 cent)
Company's "Office. F. H. GLOVER Acting General Manager
Hong Kong, 26th May, 1936.
GOVERNMENT BILLS,
etc.
Tenders for Dollars current in this .Colony. for telegraphic transfer, on the Lords Commis sioners of His Majesty's Trea sury, London, up to and for the sum of £40,000, will be received by the Treasury Chest Officer, Command Pay Office, until 11 o'clock s.m. on the 28th May,
1936
The tenders to state the total Amount (in pounds sterling). No telegraphic transfer will be made for less than £100.
The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed to the Treasury Chest Officer, Com.
NOTICE
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LANE. CRAWFORD, LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FOURTEENTH OR DINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held in Exchange Building, Hong Kong. on SATURDAY, 6th JUNE, 1936, at il 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,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936.
Editorial and Business Office: 11,1
DRIVER
Ice House Street. Tel. 30251. WAS BLINDED BY
Night Editor (Wanchai Office):
Tel. 34511.
London Office: 53. Fleet Street
EO. 4.
The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, May 28, 1936."
MARRIAGE BY SLOT. MACHINE
It will not and to the ease with which married people will regain their tempers after sharp differ- ences to know that they are only linked as they are because the West 13 so far behind the East in the crucial matter of appiled mechanical Liventions. "Ead there only been slot-machines in our callow twenties will be the bitter, and perhaps spoken, thought of the angrily married in their quar- rels, and great will be the disgust they will feel that the objects that can be obtained from our automa- tie slots are nothing to husbands and wives. Much better off is the modern citizen of Japan, who has merely to insert his yen and the slot-machine gives him a list of names and addresses of people of the other sex who may be ap- proached with honourable pro- posals. New names and addresses are put into the machine every day.
The machine is pretty sure to be installed here and in the United States. People will not go on in- definitely taking the trouble they take about whom they still do marry if the marriage is not likely to last. The preliminaries of courtship."the gifts and attentions, the formal engagement and still formal wedding-all these more things presuppose lifelong mono- gamy, and no one would go through
them for anything less. When they lead in fact to divorce pro- ceedings a few years later, every one concrned feels duped. But a marriage that has come about with Manager.no greater exertion than is requir
ed to buy a packet of cigarettes be broken up with no great [4459 can
heartburnings. The mere know- ledge of the abundant waiting-list will in itself be an incentive to firm action.
mand Pay Office, and endorsed Hong Kong, 26th May, 1936. "Tender for Government Bills,
etc."
The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is. re served.
Copies of Forms of Tender can he had on application.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
COMPANY. LIMITED..
That no one need despair, on mere grounds of age, of getting married has just been comfortably
pensioner of seventy-six is looking wife of at least seventy whose pension can be added to his
Persons tendering for (Bills)HE Ordinary General Meeting of shown in Devon, where an Army
are hereby notified that having regard to the provisions of the Acts 22 George III Cap. 45 and 41 George III Cap. 52 the accep. tance of any such Tender is.sub.
the Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Com-for a paay's Offices, P. & Building, on Friday, the 29th May, 1936, at Noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Manager
Statement of together with
OW The inmates of a Poor Law
institution, are being paraded be- Tore him. Seventy has an appeal
of its own, and the day draws near
SMOKE
MAHMOUD WINS DERBY IN RECORD TIME
Cause Of Mishap On Aga Khan's Third Victory
Castle Peak
Road
CAR'S 30-FEET CRASH
A mysterious cloud of smoke which blinded the chauffeur caused yesterday's motor, mis-, hup which resulted in three people being severely injured.
The injured, 'who are in Kowloon Hospital, are:
1.
and
C. H. Vabchain, general mana- ger of Hume Pipe (Far East), Ltd., slight head and body injur.es.
Cheung Kam, chauffeur, 28. of 143. Fa Yuen Sarcet, serious head
njuries.
FAVOURITE COMES FOURTH
His Highness the Ara Khan secured his third Derby briumph at Epsom Downs when Mahmoud ridden by Smirke won in re- cord time from his stable companion Taj Akbar ridden by the champion jockey, Gordon Richa.ds, Tommy Burns secured third place on Thankerton."
Lord Astor's Pay Up, the favourite, was fourth, while Noble King, Boswell and other hopes of punters were numbered among the "also rans." Couvert, according to. Reuter's description of the race led the greater part of the way, but he was overtaken romp home by three and Mahmoud challenged Thankerton to lengths.
H.H the Aga Khan won his Carioca
with first Derby
Blenheim in Spinalot
J. E. Barnes, manager of Cal- lender's Cabie and Construction | 1930 with H. Wragg in the saddle. The betting was 18 to 1. His sec- Co., severe back injuries abrasions.
ond victory came last year with Bahrain, at 5 to 4, ridden by Fox: Bahram also won the 2000 Guineas and the St, Leger. The Aga Khan always RES more than one hope, and on this occasion two of his horses secured first two places. The weather at Epsom Downs was fine, but somewhat hazy and overcast. There was 20 im- mense crowd at Tattenham Corner. and 5,000 more people attended than last year.
Cheung recovered consciousness yesterday afternoon and was able to give the police slight informa- tion regarding the cause of the accident.
He said he was dr.ving Mr. Unbehaun and Mr Barnes from Kowloon to the Hume Pipe factory Castle at Tsun Wan along the Peak Road and passed the nine 'milestone about 9.30 a.m.
Just after passing that point. he stated, he noticed smoke com- ing from the right hand side of the floorboard but could not say to what it was due,
SMOKE IN FACE
The was a slight delay at the start, but the field got off very well.
THE RESULT
London, May 27. Twenty two ran in the Derby at Epsom Downs to-day with the following result
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Mid-Stream Fearless Fox Bela Ethel ..... Boswell
가
(Arthur Wragg) (Jelliss) (Fox) .... (E Smith) (Steve Donoghue) (Pat Beasley)
CHINA ORDERS FOR BRITAIN
Sluice Gates And Locomotives
London, May 27.
An important order for sluice gates amounting to £120,000 for the Huni River Conservancy has been placed by the Chinese Gov- ernment Purchasing Commission with Glenfeld Kennedy, Hydraulic Engineers, Kilmarnock, who will supervise the erection. The order involves complete equipment of a weir to regulate the Row of water including six sets of rollersluice gates each independently operated. The Vulcan Foundry Shipping gets an order for eight more giant 484 locomotives of 125 tons each for the Canton-Hankow Railway in mid-June and several passenger coaches will be simultaneously des- patched.
Five complete de luxe trains for the Canton-Hunkow Railway on order have been held up by the Bri- tish rearmament programme,
It.
EARLY HOPES
London, May 21, i hoped they will be delivered in Derby day dawned quite dull with August.-- threatening rain. At least 500,000! #euter." people throng the famous Downs to watch the Blue Riband of the British turf for which the winner will receive £99,340, the second
£1,180 and the third £690.
An innovation this year will be the presence of new stipendiary stewards on the course. One will be present at the starting point, another at Tattenham Corner, and a third near the finish to see that the race is run fairly.
DEATH OF FORMER MINISTER
"Hong Kong Daily Press" Special
Copenhagen. May 27.
The former minister. Her Han- sen, died here early to-day at the age of 74. He had held posts in various cabinets and from 1906 to 1938 was a member of the German Reichstag representing the North Schleswig
constituency. Subse-
It is generally believed that Taj Akbar will give Gordon Richards his first winning ride in the Derby, 2 but from the amazing amount of quently he became a Danish citf-
last-minute money for Boswell it zen and carried on active propan- ta evident that many are confident da in favour of the cession of that the American owned horse North Schleswig to Denmark. will win, and it is not improbable. Transocean News Service. that he will start favourite.- Reuten
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Mahmoud C. Smirke) Tal Akbar (Gordon Richards) Thankerton (Tommy Burns)......
Mahmoud won by three lengths. while Taj Akbar passed the post
length opposite three-quarter
ahead of
Thankerton.
At the same ame a motor bus
from, the approached direction and as it passed it caused #gust of wind which blow the smoke to his face and blinded 1 Taj Akbar. 33 to 1 Thankerton.
him..
* lost control of the car," said
wards I do not know for the next Cheung. "What happened after-
thing I realised was that I was being carried on a stretcher."
The driver of the motor bua. however, was able to fill in the blank
He told the police that the car swerved over the side of the road,
struck a tree and rolled down a steep 30-feet slope to the fore- share.
The driver and passengers ran to the aid of the passengers and extricated them from the wreck-
age. They then notified the police
and the ambulance.
Betting: 100 to 8 Mahmoud, 6 to
RACE DESCRIBED
On settling down Cariocs led from Barry Star, Pay Up, Mid- stream. Abfer. Couvert, Magnet and Noble King, with Mendicant Friar last..
After going the half mile, Carioca led Midstream, Pay up Magnet. Abjer, and Boswell, with Squadron Castle now last.
Coming down the hill Thanker- ton led from Bala Hissar, Pay Up and Boswell, and entering the straight Thankerton was three lengths clear, but below the dia-
tance post Mahmoud, challenged and went in to lead, when Thanker-
ton weakened.
Taj Akbar mad a gallant effort to catch his stable companion, but Mahmoud held on to the lead to
About an hour later the wreck- age of the ear suddenly burst into flames, Mongkok fre brigade was win easily and give H.H. the Aga
notified but by the time it arrived
ject to the express condition that Accounts to the 31st December, 1930. when persions will loom larger the flames were almost extinguish~,|
no Member of the British House of Commons shall be admitted to any share or part in or to any benefit to arise from the Contract thereby made for the allotment of such (Bills)."
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Com. pany, in its corporated capacity and made for the general benefit of the Company."
R.H. SMYTH Major, R.A.P.C.
Treasury Chest Officer,
His Majesty's Treasury Office, Hong Kong.
NOTICE.
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We hereby notify the public
that we are removing our offices
The Transfer Booka of the Company will be CLOSED from Tuesday, the 26th May to Friday, the 29th May, 1936, both days inclusive.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 15th May, 1936.
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.THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB,
NOTICE.
among the elements of eligibility, ed and the car a total wreck. The Pensioners not only have im-vehicle was covered by insurance. perishable dowries; they are also CONDITION OF INJURED commonly quiet in their tastes.
No one
can read about modern
divorce without feeling that to marry young is to invite trouble. It is said that a Detroit citizen is the latest husband to obtain a divorce for a reason which never occurred to Earl Leotric of Mercia. His wife's falling came from the thirst for pleasure, in her case "Strip poker," at which her en- thusiasm outran her skill, until her husband grew, weary of buying her fresh clothes to hide her losses.
HALF-YEARLY Old wives, who do not even want THE MEAL MEETING of to play strip poker, may well look VOTING MEMBERS will be held best to the calm eyes of reason. at the Club House, Happy Valley, on wives who have passed through Thursday, 28th May, 1936, at 5.30 the fever of excitement and who
p.a.
are content to sit. fortified with
ALL MEMBERS are cordially modest pensions, hearing the tales invited to attend and participate in their husbands choose to tell. any discussion which may ensue. By Order of the Stewards,
S. A SLEAP,
Acting Becretary.
and showroom from the Glouces Hong Kong, 8th May, 1986.
ter Building to York Building,
Chater Road as from the Ist.
June, 1936.
SCHMIDT & CO.
1155
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE
THE SIXTH EXTEA RACE MEETING will be held (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 80th MAY and MONDAY, 1st JUNE, 1986, commencing at 2.00. P.M. respectively.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.90 P.M. on SA" URDAY, and at
12 Noon on MONDAY.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAF,
Actg. Secretary.
Hong Kong, 25th May, 1996.
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TYPHOON WARNING
It was stated at Kowloon Hos- pital last night that although the three men had sustained multiple injuries and were seriously hurt, their condition was satisfactory and they were progressing as well as could be expected.
- Mr. Barnes. who is still semi- conscious, is the most seriously hurt.
NUDIST MAGAZINE ·
Khan his third Derby.
Pay Up, 5 to 1 favourite, was fourth, His Grace
Afth, and Couvert last.
The time was 2 minutes 33-4/5 seconds, which was a record for the distance of 14 miles and five yards. Mahmoud was the first grey to win since Tagalle.in 1912 and the enly third grey ever to win.— Reuter
OTHER STARTERS
The following were the other starters:
Squadron Castle Pay Up Mendicant Priar Barry Star Couvert..... In connection with the recent Abler
heard in Hongkong and Noble King
His Grace Kowloon where certain books were confiscated, the Nudist Magazine Walvis Bay
among those seized as in- Magnet
Raeburn decent literature.
Bala Hissar Haultryn
cases
Was
¡!
An order was made for the con- fiscation of all this kind of litera- ture but we are informed that the Nudist Magazine is not included under this category. The Nudist The following typhoon warning Magazines that were seized have was issued in a telegrain from been returned to their owners. [4419 | Manila at 3.5 p.m. yesterday:--
Typhoon in about 129 degrees Long. E. and 9 degrees Lät. N., moving W.N.W.
DONT FORGET
THAT WHEN You are at Home you can get the HONG KONG DAILY at SELFRIDGES.
PRESS
MANILA-MADRID FLIGHT
Hop To Hong Kong Delayed
Manila, May' 27. The Filipino aviators, Antonio Arnaiz and Juan de Calvo, who are to attempt a flight to Madrid, have postponed their departure until to- morrow morning, owing to their decision to further overhaul their plane.
The airmen will take off from Laoag, in Northern Luzon, and pro- pose to make their first landing in Hong Kongm
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CHINA APPOINTS DELEGATES
Congress In Glasgow
London, May 27,
Dr C. C. Wang, director of the Chinese Purchasing Commission, and Mr. Tang Leang- have been appointed to represent China at the congress of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies in Glasgow on June 1
Owing to the lateness of the ap- pointment. the Chinese delegates will be unable to move their own proposals. but they are preparing active amendments or will support several topics, notably Japanese policy in the Far East and revision of treaties including extrality.— Heuter.
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(Dines) (Dick)
(Weston) (Marshall)
(Beary) (Elliott) (Perryman) (Harry Wragg) (Lowrey) (Carslake)
(Blrett)
(Jones)
(Lane)
ATE BUTTONS AND KEYS
Strange Behaviour Of "Little Kwangtung"
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS
London, May 27. Great crowds assembled very early to-day for this afternoon's Derby Elaborate police arrange- ments, including use of autogyros and wireless, were in operation to overcome trame blocks: The wea
ther was grey with promise of im- provement later.
Lord Astor's Pay Up has replaced Aga Khan's Taj Akbar as favourite, with Sir Alfred Butt's Noble King next in betting, and the American horse Boswell until recently an outsider next in popularity... There are twenty two probable runners and the going will be firm.- British Wirelena,
FINAL CALL-OVER
ANTI-JAPANESE, VOLUNTEERS
Casualties In" Bitter Fighting
Changchun, May 27. Seven Japanese military officers were killed and ten wounded follow- ing a series of bitter night with the anti-Japanese volunteers in North reports Manchuria, according to received here.
According to the same report. there arc 18,400 anti-Japanese volunteers in North Manchuria at the present time.- Ginion News.
UNITED FRONT
Changchun, May 27.
It is exclusively learned that a London, May 26.
united front has been formed by The following was the final call-
the various volunteer and national over for the Derby on the eve otivation corps in Eastern Man- the great race:-
6 to 1 Pay Up it and 07 O to 14 Taj Akbar it and o) 15 to 2 Noble King (t and o)
8 to 1 Boswell (t and o) 100 to 8 Bala Hissar (t and o) 100 to 7 Mahmoud (t and o)
Barry Star (0) 28 to i (t)
25 to 1
28 to I
Carioca (t and o) Abjer it and o)
28 to Midstream (0) 33 to 1 (t) Thankerton (0) 33 to 1 (t)
33 to 1 35 to 1 40 to 1 40 to 1
Couvert (t and o). His Grace (t and o)" Raeburn (t and o) Fearless Fox (0) 56 to 1 (1)
45 to 1 Bela Ethel (t and o)
Magnet (t and o
53 to 1 Haulfryn it and c) 66 to 1" Walvis Bay it and o) 100 to 1 Mendicant Friar (t and o) Squadron Castle (t and o) Spinalct (t and 0),
-Reuter,
NEW CABINET IN SPAIN
Exclusively Catalan Element
"Hong Kong Daily Presa Sperla) Madrid, May 27.' Senor Luis Companys, President
Shanghai, May 27. When the hearing of the Naka- yama case was resumed 'at the Special District Court this after- noon, the judge ordered Yih Hat of the Catalan Republic, has form- sen. alias "Little Kwangtung." to ed a new Cabinet composed "ex- be removed to hospital at the re- clusively quest of his lawyer, who said the
of
membera
of
churfa.
A joint anti-Japanese volunteer headquarters was established in Eastern Manchuria on May 1. General Hsieh Wentung has been appointed commander of the joint arty.-
Union News.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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The American Mall Line steamer "President McKinley” will arrive in Hong Kong to-morrow at day- light, and will sail for Manila at 6 p.m. on the same day.
Cheting H, 49, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital on Tuesday suffering from injuries which he received when he fell down the hillside at Tytam
Severely injured while trying to alight from lorry No. 4115 whilst it was in motion in Matauwal, Choi Kau was admitted to the Kowloon Hospilai on Tuesday." The injured man died shortly äfter admission.
At the Lammert Brothers' Sales Room, No. 4, Duddell Street, yester- day afternoon, the property of the Chiu. On Steamship Co., Ltd., com- prising (a) 8.8. Hydrangea, (b) 8.8. Chỉú Hoi, (c) Permanent Pler No. 6 (Hong Kong) and (d) Mooring Buoy No. 9 (Swatow), which was scheduled to be put up in one lot by public auction, by order of the liquidator. was withdrawn, owing to no bidders.
One case of Small-Pox and two the cases of Diphtheria were reported accused was physically and men-moderate wing of the Catalan left to the Health Authorities for the
24 hours ended on Tuesday. barty. "Esquerra." This is gen- tally ul.
Yih told the Court that he aterally interpreted here as Indicat The return showing the number of cases of Notinable Diseases tempted suicide in prison several
which have been notifed 'as having. times by eating buttons and keys. ing that Companys and he co-
At the previous hearing Yih workers in the revolutionary gor- occurred in the Colony of Hong made a dramatic statement re-ernment of October 1934 are get-Kong during the week ended May garding the murder of the Japan- ting somewhat weary of revolu- 23 are as follows:-Diphtheria ? ese marine Nakayama, which al- tionary tactics at any price em- cases, 2 fatal, Enteric Fever 4 cases, legations were denied by this fel-ployed by the radical Catalan au- two imported, Cerebro-Bpinal Fever low accused. Yang Weng-tao-
1 fatal case, Tuberculosis (not notifiable) 54 cakes,“
Reuter,
tonomists.-
Transocean Newe Service,
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