ADVERTISEMENTS.
KOWLOON CANTON
RAILWAY
The Public are hereby notified that the following alterations to Local Trains will come into operation on and from Thursday next, July 16th, 1936:—
3.48 p.m. from Kowloon will depart Kowloon at 3.58 p.m. and arrive Shum Chun at 4.58 p.m. instead of 4.44 p.m.
4.20 p.m. from Shum Chua wil depart Shum Chun at 4.15 p.m. and arrive Kowloon at the same time, viz. 5.18 p.m.
R. D. WALKER, Manager & Chief Engineer.
4559
N HONG KONG AND
SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED
Interim that on
Dividend of €2.10 per share, subject to deduction of Income Tax, has.. been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th June 1936 at rate of 1/3,5/16 per Dollar.}"
"THE
DIVIDEND will be
ACKNOWLEDGMENT,
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Peters and family extend their heartfelt thanks to the doctors and the sisters, nurses and staff of the St. Paul's Hospital 'for', their patient care and. attention to little Daphne during her fl- ness; and to all relatives and friends for their kind enquiries. condolences and attendance at the funeral and for their floral "tributes.
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HONG KONG, JULY 16, 1936.
MORE SUPPORT NEEDED
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 16. 1936.
SOUTHWEST DEFIES
NANKING
Government Under Grip Of Traitors
CHARGE OF BETRAYING THE COUNTRY
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And Currying Favour With The Enemy
Canton, July 15.
The Southwest Executive Committee and the Southwest Foli- ical Council to-day crculates a telegram denouncing' the Second Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committes. The telegram is addressed to the Kuomintang Central Head- quarters; the National Government: the Party Headquarters of the Various Provinces and Towns the Various Provincial and the Municipal Governments; the Pacification Commissioners; Commanders-in-Chief; the Commanders of Army Corps, Divi- sions, and Brigades; Various Overseas Party Headquarters; Vari- ous Overseas Chinese Organizations; Various Embassies, Consu- lates; Various News Journals: Various Mass Organizations,
A translation handed to the Central Press reads as follows:
C.E.C. DECISION ILLEGAL
While there is no begrudging residents' Kowloon
rightful clamourings for better street lighting and more amenities to payable on and after 10th August, cope with the rapid growth of the Peninsula during the past few 1936, at the offices of the Cor
years. it is a umatter of the at- poration, where Shareholders are
most regret to note that the poor garrison in Peiping and Tientsin requested to apply for Warrants.
enthusiasm. if any at all, shown and put North China in an ex-ganisations and armed forces can THE REGISTER OF
on the part of the residents in the tremely precarious position, we, the send delegates. SHARES of the Corporation will activities of the Kowloon Re-undersigned, have come to the National salvation depends on be closed from 77th July, to 8thsidents Association had to be conclusion that national perdition the people themselves. For the will not be arrested except by im- sake of national liberation and of
Angust, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer ›of Shares can be'registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
„V. M.`GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager, Hong Kong, 7th July, 1936.
4548
HONG KONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LTD.
NOTICE OF INTERIM DIVIDEND
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Ever since Japan increased ber
to Japan and for national salva- tion to which all anti-Japanese or-
mediate resistance to Japan and sweeping away 'all impediments that unless we concentrate all ❘ and traitors - resistance,' we
to
deplored by a member at the annual meeting of the Association held earlier this week. To use units of national strength, we swear that we under the aegis of the words of the speaker, "I am shall be too frail in resistance. Dr. Sun's spirit, shall be the van- amazed to find so little en-Therefore, on the eve of the guards in Eghting for the people's thasiasta on the part of the re-Becond Plenary Session, the CEO. welfare. sidents of Kowloon,"
members in the Southwest submit- ted for its consideration the mini- The attendance was meagre mum proposals for saving the mere handful, It must have been country, namely; immediate seve most disheartening to the Presi-rance of political relations with dent and officials of the organisa-Japan: abrogation of all dercza- tion, who, throughout the year, Japan since September 18 1931: tory agreements concluded with
-GRIP OF TRAITORS
WAYS TO SALVATION
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crisis has reached its height which We consider that the national
does not permit us to acquiesce in silence, We hereby solemnly re- fuse to recognize the validity of the resolutions of the Second
FINAL APPEAL
TO CHEN
Urged To Avoid Civil War
INVITATION TO NANKING
NORTH CHINA SMUGGLING
More Questions In Commons
London, July 10. In the House of Commons to day, Sir J. S. Wardlaw-Milne (Con.. Kidderminster) Inquired the re-
was
Nanking. July 15, sult of discussions with the United Four prominent Cantonese mem- States on the subject of North bers of the Central Executiva Com-China smuggling and whether mittee, Mr. Tang Shảo-yl, Mr. Sun ¦ was expected they would lead to Fo. Dr. Wang Ching-hut and Mr.† combined action.. Hsu Chung-ch, have telegraphed & Anal appeal to General Chen Chi-tang urging him to avoid civil war and suggesting that he pro- ceed immediately to Nanking to assist General. Chiang Kai-sher in national defence work.
Official circles in Nanking prefer make 'no comment on the formation of a separatist govern- ment in the Southwest until it ac- tually materialises.
Well-informed quarters, how- ever, are dubious whether the | Bouthwest will take such a step.-
MILITARY OPERATIONS
"Nanking, July 15.
Mr.'. Anthony Eden, who cheered on his 'return from his holiday, replied that be had nothing to add to his previous an. swer. At present he did not think there was any further action the Government could usefully take
The questioner remarked that it was a good many weeks since pro-, tests were made to Japan.
Lieut.-Comdr, R. T. H. Fletcher (Lab., Nuneaton) inquired whether British interests were seriously affected and also whether orders will be issued to the China Squad- ron.
Mr. Eden replied: "It is because British Interests are affected that
Reuter.
There is every indication that we have taken these steps."
the Central Goverment will start military operations against Kwang- tung. Nanking troops will support General Yu Han-mow's men in the latter's effort to penetrate Kwang- tung's strong defence.-Reuter
King Peter II of Yugoslavia
Plenary Session of the CE.C. and OLYMPIA TORCH
when the
CONVEYANCE
Each To Run One Kilometre
BOY KING TO PAY TRIBUTE
:
CANTON TO BE OMITTED
China Merchants S.N. Company Decision
NEWS SUMMARY
Women hawkers orten gave the police trouble by lying on the road
·and refusing to go to the police station, said Sub-Inspector, Babey. at the Central Magistracy "yester- day. When arrested they created, a scene. threw themselves on the ground and attracted a big, crowd. Invariably another constable had to be summoned to remove them to the station,
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pl factory, with electric gadgets. An elaborately equipped heroin
was described by Chief Revenue Officer Grimmitt to Mr. CJ B, Bur- gess at the Central Magistracy. yesterday when Kwan Ying and seven other Chinese were charged with the possession of cocaine."
Kwan pleaded guilty, but the others denied the charge. Page 6.
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Mak Chu, a widow of 17 Second Street, was summoned before Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday for failing to report the intended marriage of her register- ed mul-tsal, 17-year-old Chan Fuk. Page 6.
A summons against. George C. Lav, of No. 8 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong, for the possession of a wire- less set without a licence 'was heard before Mr. E Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. when Mr. Peter H. Bin represented defendant. The prosecution was _conducted by Detective-Sergeant
G. Carruthers, and Mr. A E E.. Jeffries, Wireless Technician.
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Altogether nine esses, including one of manslaughter and two con- Shanghai, July 15. cerning piracy, on junks, are dowp The China Merchants Steam to be tried at this month's Crimin- Navigation Company has 'decided | al. Sessions which commences on to eliminate Canton from their Monday next.
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An official of the company stated Tang Tung. 32, a fitter lying at that three vessels will be affected | à Ping On Lane, was brought be- by the decision, namely the Hal fore Mr. W. Schofield' at the Cen- Tseng, Hal Yuan and Hal Heng. tral Magistracy yesterday on a They are required to cope with | triple charge, two charges involving the heavy summer traffic in nor- simple larceny and the other the thern ports, but it is understood | obtaining, of money on false pre- that the real motive behind the tences. Accused was allowed 48 stoppage is in connection with the hours' formal remand in police political situation.-Reuter
custody on bail of $100.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
Lady Caldecott has graciously, Hospital on Tuesday. A man has consented to become a Patron of ƒ been arrested and charged with the Helena May. On Wednesday wounding. morning she attended the month- ly Council meeting and was much interested in the work done.
Mr. Leon Britton, General Mana-
the local office here, ger for Peacock Motion Picture Co., of Shanghai is on a visit to
have laboured of their best toImmediat armed prevention of its traitorous policy of currying ineet suggestions for the better- Japan's increase of garrison in the favour with the enemy and do ment of the welfare of residents. Pelping Tientsin Area in contra point out the following ways to The annual meeting of this Tention to the Boxer Protocol: pro-national salvation:- worthy Association, it need hard-vival of people's patriotic move Affair, the Nanking Government tection of patriotic speech and re- First, ever since the Mukden ly be pointed out, is the one ments; and the immediate nation- NOTICE IS HEREBY occasion in the year when al mobilization for a war of reals-
has stuck to its policy of" non- GIVEN that $47 INTERIM Peninsula residents can air their tance to Japan under the leader-surrender, with the result that resistance and of submission and DIVIDEND of FOUR per cent grievances under the heading ship of the Central Government. foar provinces have been lost. (4%) for the six months ended any other business." Discussion We had hoped that these proposals And now at a time 30th June, 1936, amounting to on the matter may greatly assist would be adopted by the Govern- Japanese are increasing their gar ("Hong Kong Daily Press". Special) FORTY cents per share on the the incoming Committee. when submission. procrastination, and gobbling up North China, it still be lit at Olympia, that is a Greek ment to correct its past error of rison in Peiping and Tientsin and The torch that, on July 20 will Fully Paid Up Shares and TEN they come to investigate and seek currying favour with the enemy refuses to accept the unanimous village in Peloponneus for the pur- cents per share on the Partly Paid to solve problems to the best of Up Shares of the Company will be their ability and to the satisfaction
demand of the people for, rests-pose of conveying" towards Berlin But from the time when it mettance and the proposals for salva- the fame wherewith the symbolic paid on FRIDAY, the 7th of the residents concerned.
till the day it closed, important re-tion of the Southwest members of fire will be kindled at the sports AUGUST, 1936, on which date
wel Government stadium as the opening act of the The writer's criticisms of Thes. solutions of the Session have been the C.E.C. Such a Dividend Warrants may be obday's meeting are penned from on the Southwest's Ave proposals, abluty to protect national territory carried by runners over a distance nothing more than, first, the veto | had amply' demonstrated "its" (n-| Olýmpic games of 1936, will be tained on "application at Registered office of the Company, the President, Honorary Secre-Southwest Committee of the CEC sovereignty.
personal observations. Apart from and second, the abolition of the and the integrity of national of two thousand eight hundred It bas moreover | and-fifty six kilometres, each man Exchange Building, 4th Floor tary and Honorary Treasurer, and the Southwest Political Coun- proved its counter-revolutionary covering one kilometre where his The TRANSFER BOOKS of those present included six memcil, all of which go to expose the spirit and work it cannot be successor will be waiting to convey. the Company will be CLOSED bers of the General Committee, the grip of traitors has lost it plunge the country into irredeem-
fact that the Government under allowed to exercise its sting and to the flame furthe..
The torth will pass by a route from THURSDAY, the 30th seven members and three lady freedom of will in foreign affairs. able ruin-The Southwest Execu- through Greece, Bulgaria, Tigo JULY, to FRIDAY, the 7th members, out of a total member- it has openly stuck to its policy of tive Committee of the C.E.C. of the slavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia AUGUST, 1936, both days in. ship of nearly 400! From these betraying the country and curry-Kuomintang of China, and the and Germany and will continue to alarming figures it in obvious thating favour with the enemy. In west Political Council of the Na-progress onwards despite all dif- enthusiasm in the Association's domestic affairs, it has moved the tional Government of China.
clusive.
By Order of the
Board of Directors,
the
_RAILWAY SABOTAGE
IN PALESTINE.
affairs is sorely lacking and some.
formerly anti-Communist troops to
the South, with the view to start-
ing a civil war
W. L. MCKENZIE, thing drastic will have to be done
Secretary, and done quickdy to ensure its Second, the Bouthwest Commit- Hong Kong, 8th July, 1936, future, Kowloon residente owe tee of the CEC and the South- 4553 a deep debt of gratitude for what west Political Council were estab- the Association has been able to lished on the mandate of the Fourth Kuomintang Congress and accomplish and it is only fair to
cannot be abolished, by a resolu the Association that the residents, tion of the Central Executive Com- as members, should play the game mittee. Therefore, the resolution and give support unstintingly of the Second Plenary Session of The time to speak is at the anthe CEC abolishing the two or- Jerusalem, July 14.
ninal meeting and if residents do Eans is illegal and pull and vold..
EXTRAORDINARY SESSION not, or will not (which seems to Railway sabotage continues in Palestine: Vandals damaged the be the case) take that opportunity main line west of Jerusalem and to voice their opinions then their the railway bridge near Tulkarem, complaints may as well become by means of explosives, last night. household gossip.
Four houses in an Arab village near Jaffa have been dynamited A recent Rotary Club speaker Canton, we do hereby call withith by patrols because they harboured put it very plainly when he stated the shortest space of time an Ex
that local residents were too prone traordinary Session at Canton for Exemplary punishments imposed to criticise among themselves and the purpose of re-voting on the in the Palestine courts include were too cowardly to get on the Southwest's Ave, proposals for re- eight years, penal servitude for a platform and vent their criticisme satance and sairation and of con near Jerusalem, and five years on in public. That statement would adoring the steps to be taken to
snipers.
Arab found carrying Mills' 'borîbs
CANTON. NAVY RUNAWAYS
War Minister's Praise
ficulties of the road and in- clemencles of the weather.
HMS. Orpheus arrived in port yesterday afternoon from Welhal
A flannel dance will be held by the local section of the Health, Strength, Sports and Athletic Club at Hotel Cecil" on the coming Saturday, July 18 from 8:30 pm to 12.30 am. Members and their friends are welcome at usual ad- mission charges. By kind per- mission of Lieut. Col. R. M. Rodwell and Officers, the Dance Orchestra of the 1st Bn. Royal Ulster Rides will be in attendance.
An unknown. Chinese wOIDAN., aged 26, was discovered in the New Asia Hotel on Tuesday sndering: from the effects of lysol poisoning. believed to have been self-adminis→ tered. She died before sid could be summoned,
The late Mr. Henry Adolphus" Warre Slade, formerly of Willards Hill Ethingham, Bussex, who died on January 8 last left local estate to the value of $51,300, An up- plication by Mr. R. A. Wadeson solicitor, the lawful attorney, for sealing copy of probate of the will, has been granted.
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Local estate to the value of $8,200.
was left by Mr. Sidney Williams Rowland, late of 3 Neyland Ter- race, Neyland, Pembrokeshire, who died on July 3, 1935. An applica- tion by Mr. R. A. Wadeson, solleitor, the lawful attorney, for sealing More than five thousand Yugo- The 21st Anniversary of the Bt. probate of the will, has been alav athletes will participate in
Paul's Girls' College will be cele- | allowed. this ceremony: during the passage | brated -on July 17, when Lady of the torch through their coun- Caldecott will be present at the Lee Hysan Hall to distribute certi- When the torch reaches the town |"ficates to the successful, scholars. | of Oplenae at 2 a.m. on July 28, the boy King Peter II, dressed, aa'a' A telegram addressed to Barbara Yugoslav athlete, will be waiting O'Bullivan, Hong Kong Hotel, from
Nanking, July 15. General Ho Ying-ching, and at the church to light a candle from other high military officers, have the Olymple torch before the tomb assassinated telegraphed the commander of the his father, the two torpedo-boats, at present ining Alexander 1, called affection- Hong Kong, commending them ately by his people, "Unifler of
Shanghat is now lying unclaimed at the offices of the Great Northern Telegraph Co. (Ltd.).
....
Betty Park, 13, of Nathan Rosd, Kowloon, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital on Tuesday with a broken arm received when she fell down while playing at the Cen- trai. British School --
Three members of "C" Company of the Royal Uister Rifles were ad- One case each of Enteric Fever mitted to the Military Hospital, Bowen Road on Tuesday, with
In order to carry out our policy persuade other captains of gun./King served the same purpose as ported to the Health Authorities lorry ran over an embankment at for deserting, and saking them to Yugoslava," whose life work as} and Cerebro-Spinal Fever were reight injuries received when a
of resisting Japan and saving the volutionary mission of the Party country and to carry on the re-
and on the initiative of the men- bers of the C.E.C. and 0.8.C. in
carry them out. All other mem-
boats in Kwangtung waters to obey Reuter. Nanking's orders.—
F.M.S. POLICE “DISMISSALS
the Olympic games themselves.
King Peter will then run the re- gulation kilometre, and hand the torch to the runner whose turn comen, next- Tranentron News Service.
OLYMPIC MENU INNOVATION
Berlin, July 15.
for the 24 hours ended on Tuesday. Shaukiwan The Injured men are
Robert. Wayne Adams, 25, must-Lance Corporal Matthews Rife- can, was married yesterday at 2.15 They were riding in a military
man Smith and Riteman Jackson pm, to Miss Alice Chow, 24, dancer, lorry in the afternoon and were at the Registry. The witnesses thrown out when the vehicle ran were Earl Whaley, and Bari West,
of the Cathay Cabaret, Mr. M. 1 over the embarkmen coming down
Shaukivan hi Abbott, the Deputy Registrar, officiated
Wholesale Bribery
In order to overcome language | Li Chuk, 34, unemployed was Singapore, July 15 difficulties a resident of Hebron found with seem to aptly apply to the members of the CEC/ CBC elser-
at meals, Olympic admitted to the Government Civil Twenty nine police officers and officials will order the menus in Hospital on Tuesday suffering from quantity of bullets in his posses bera of the K. R. A. A remedy where are earnestly requeried to meh in Perak have been dismissed the Olympic village restaurants to the effects of Landerston, He
with membership and form are the late De Sun's teaching on the Nine sergeants and corporals courses for the day. Menus are Fausti ferry whart presentative body known as the People's Congress us the means to have been reduced to the ranks, now appearing in bright colours of settle-national- fasues, - we shall while fifteen have been severely | eggs, fish, FORSLE and other Kowloon Residents Welfare Com- within a short time can such a reprimandede po mittee. We invite opinione.
sion.
A sergeant of the Royal † might be suggested. Dispense attend this Bession. Falthful to the service for wholesale bribery. beilustrated with the various Jumped into the barbour from the
cashire Regiment
Lán
was injured when a lorry in which he was do- Ing patrol duty fell over an em-
bankments Leuters. Bulsivi, Ozrence.
Congress at Canton for feristance | Kaŭfare Bulletin Seruje:
Heuter Bulletin Service
With hilfe wounds in his chest, Che Ying, 40, ship's cook, was ad mitted to the Government Civil
CANTON DELEGATES DEPART
- Shanghals July-147 The five Bouthwest delegates to the CK.C. session, in Manking left for Hong Kong aboard this of Canada this
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