NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
NOTICE
It is hereby notified that Mr. D. L. KING will relinquish, at his own request, his appointment as Secretary of this Company on July 21st, 1936; and that Mr. J. C. GUTERRES has been ap pointed to be Acting Secretary of the Company with effect from that date.
By Order of the Board.
D. L. KING,
Secretary,
Hong Kong, July 21st, 1936.
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HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING.
CORPORATION
IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim 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.
DEATH
BUCHES-On Saturday, July 11
1930, in Shanghai, Williams Penn Hughes, aged 43 years.
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NIGHT FLYING
The question of night-flying facilities was raised in Parliament the other day by a member who asserted that we were "years be- hind other countries" in this res- pect. Perlaps this slightly over- states and distorts the case. True. a few, very few, night services are running on the Continent, in Germany especially. Geographical conditions, the possession of long land distances where aircraft have peculiar advantages, are one ex- planation: in little Britain, with its short hauls and excellent rail- ways; there is not the same ut- traction. The United States, which has thousands of miles of lighted airways, expensively equipped with the latest wireless aids for the guidance of pilots in navigu REGISTER O Ftion and in "bflnd" landings, is SHARES of the Corporation will nearly a continent in itself. Out- be closed from 27th July, to 8thside Britain Imperial Airways August, (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THE DIVIDEND will be payable on and after 10th August, 1936, at the offices of the Cor poration, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.
THE
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 7th July, 1936.
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SCIENTIST TO STUDY LEPROSY IN BORNEO
ORGANIZED ETHIOPIAN RED CROSS
left of a year
Shanghai, July 15. Resuming his work where he ago to go to Ethiopia, Dr. Arthur Torrence, a member of the Royal Society of Tropical Diseases, arrived in Shanghal last night in the as. Em press of Canada, bound for Borneo to carry out his study of leprosy there. For the past year, Dr. Tor- rence
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1936. -
CANTON AIRMEN
DESERTERS
Two Killed And Others Injured
CHEN'S COLLEAGUE STRANDED
Nanking, July 20
and Details of the sudden dramatic desertion of the Canton air force were revealed to-day.
It is disclosed that two airmen were killed when one plane crash- ed while taking off and two others were badly injured when other machines cracked up on landing at Shiukwan
Cantonese airmen did not sleep on Friday night and slipped out from the barracks at 3 am
on
Saturday and shortly before dawn sixty nine machines hopped off for Shiukwan,
It is stated here that no military machines left Canton.
NANKING OFFICIALS
FOR CANTON
To Assist In Taking Over Administration.
CHEN CHI TANG TO GO ABROAD
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Nanking, July 20.
It is authoritatively stated that the Chinese Government has decided to send a number of high officials to Canton, to firstly, assist General Yu Han-mow to take over the military and poll- tical, administration of the province; secondly to personally commend the Kwangtung. army, navy and air force for loyalty towards the Central Government; and thirdly, to welcome the elder statesmen at present in the Southwest to come to Nanking to participate in Government affairs.
As regards the request by General;
Chen Chi-tans to be given a title CANTON REGIME
and sent abroad on a Government mission, it is understood that the Government will grant the request. It is stated that "since Chen Chi-tang recently devoted much
COLLAPSE
It is also revealed that the airman who was at the controls of the machine in which Chen Han-attention to reconstruction and Subdued Comment In
kwan. General Chen Chi-tang's representative hopped off from Canton to Nanking, deserted him
at Nanchang to join his comrades structed other planes to carry The Generalissimo, however, in- Chen Han-kwan to the capital. Reuter.
AIRMAIL DELAYED
We understand that owing to the prevalling bad weather and the presence of a typhoon, the Imperial Airways liner Delphinius,, dug in the ordinary course to-day, will be delayed for one day.
The following telegram was des- patched from Manila Observatory at 9 am. yesterday:—
Typhoon in about 111 degrees Long. E. and 17 degrees Lat. N.. moving North-West,
fast new schedules on the Empire TYPHOON WARNING routes will be made possible only by flying night as well as day. The flying-boats under construc- tion are therefore, for the first time, to be provided with sleeping berths. Laying down the neces- sary ground equipment for night flying is also being pushed for ward. But, since much the same ground preparations are needed. aight dying is only a special aspect of all-weather flying, and we are never likely to obtain night
air services on a large scale until the whole of Western Europe at least can be treated as a single operating air unit. But this would nesa international control, in- ternational
of standardisation ground equipment (how, for example, can any pilot be expect ed to cope with half a dozen different and complex radio land- ing systems?), and international pooling of services. The alterna tive is slow and haphazard development, punctuated by trade
"'wors
has been in Ethiopia, at CAPETOWN RETURNS
work with the Red Cross unit of Emperor Haile Selassie while the conflict was going on with Italy.
One year.
Devonport.
The homecoming of the cruiser ago, he passed Capetown from the Chiza Station
rendered additionally
In-
Typhoon in about 127 degrees Long. E and 20 degrees Lat N., moving North West,
development
in industries of Canton, he will probably be sent abroad to study industrial con-
ditions in foreign countries."—
Reuter
KWANGTUNG FINANCE
Shanghai. July 20. Mr. Tang Hsou-ming. general manager of the Bank of Communi- cations, and Mr. Rei Tsu-yee. manager of the Bank of China, have been delegated to confer with the Cantonese authorities regard→ ing anancial and monetary read justment in Kwangtung-Reutet.
DANISH SHIP ON FIRE
Engineer Severely Burned
Zamboanga, July 20. The Danish vessel Nora Maersk,
of 6,270 tons, is burning in the bay here and threatens to become a
ex-
aal following total loss plosion in the engine room `yes- terday afternoon. the explosion'la not known:
LC
London Press
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London, July 20
The Cantonese collapse is duly noted by all papers but there is
no comment Attention at the moment 13 absorbed by the Spanish civil war.
UNWILLING TO BE BAITED
CHINA NOT TO FOLLOW ABYSSINIA'S
PATH
Gen. Chiang Enunciates Foreign Policy
Kanking. July 14. One of the most important de clarations at the Second Plenary
NEWS SUMMARY
A trick adopted by a beggar to excité public sympathy was re- vealed by Sub-Inspector Mist when he prosecuted LA Tak-choi before Mr. C. B. Burgess at the
Central Magistracy yesterday.
Tong Sui-po. 21. unemployed.. appeared before, Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central "Magistracy yester- day, charged with having stolen $89, property of Au.Kat, ntter. from No. 12 Tal Yuen Street, second floor, on July 17.
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Arrested on Friday night for Session was delivered yesterday | soliciting. Lei Kau, 35 caused con- when Gen Chiang Kai-shek min-siderable trouble when brought to ced no words in clarifying the the Central Police Station. foreign policy of the National
.. Page 6. Government before over 160 C.SC. members from all parts of China.
"I am
a Government, servant The Generalissimo's definition of and can abuse and assault any- the Government's foreign policy one I like." is what To Yiu, a wa- was made as an explanatory re-man hawker, alleged Hu! Let-sze, ply to the rejected motion sub- | a middle-aged woman, said to her mitted by 23 Southwest members, in Centre Street an Apr'1 11.". calling for an immediate exped!- | -
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Gen. Chiang began by stating The piracy of a trading junk in that such a proposal was submit- British waters, just outside the
tion against Japanese aggression.
Я
At
ted because the Southwest leaders harbour. had sequel the never have understood the foreign Criminal Sessions yesterday when policy of the Central Government, Tang Cheong. 31, and Lau Mus. owing to their isolation. Even 47.. were charged before the Chle
MacGregor. the resolution by the Fifth Na- Justice. Sir Atholl
taken part in the tional Kuomintang Congress, last with having November, to the effect that crime, with four athers not in peace will not be forsaken by custody.
Poze 5. China until there is no hope for
Southwest members,
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY Clearly stated, the Generalissi-labour
peace and the idea of sacrifice "The crime is a cruel one, and There was an additional all- round strength, to-day in Chinese will not be lightly embraced until I have no hesitation in penishing loans which, however, are conspi-China is driven to the last ex-you severely, just as you may have tremity where sacrifice is inevit punished this little boy," remark- unafected by recent cucusly
The market is narrow able. Gen. Chläng said, has noted the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl events. and big orders are difficult to all been quite well understood by the MacGregor, at the Criminal fer- sions yesterday when he passed Experienced observers never be
sentence of three years" hard lieved a civil war will actually
Lau. Nam. a 30-old break out. Visitors from China, both Chinese and foreign, stress mo emphasized, the maintenance earth-carrying coolie, who was the remarkable feeling there of China's territorial integrity is found guilty on a charge of steal-
determination point foring
7-year-old child named against such a move among the the
Page 5. Junior Chinese aficers.
sacrifice and struggle, China will Yeung Sik-ping not stand any nation seeking to
territorial integrity. LOCAL AND GENERAL destroy her "China,” Gen. Chiang declared, "will never sign any treaty to her territorial If and when any force Chine
to
The flight of General Chen Chi- tang is regretted. His many years of pleasant relationships with Hong Kong are recalled, but it is agreed that the first essential in detrimental uniform administration under the integrity." Central Government may now be nation should expected and later on it will be sign any paper for the recognition able to extend currency reform to of Manchoukuo, that will be the South China, and also 5. much time
for China to make the stronger control over smuggling in supreme sacrifice.
If and when every available po-
-Reuter.
gressive designs on Chinese terri- tory" by a foreign nation, which aims at eliminating the existence of the Chinese nation, the Gene- ralissimo added, that will be the time for China to make the supreme sacrifice.
a
Due to economic oppression by: the Japanese in the opinion of the "Sin Wen Pao," the Hua Hsin Cot- ton Mill in Tientsin, one of the largest six in North China, will be offered for sale. It is expected that some 30 to 40 per cent, of ita, value may be realized. The mill
The cause of the South with, beneficial resunutien means fails to balk any ag- has 25,000 spindles.
MUCH CHROMITE The second engineer was severely
IN ZAMBALES
Consolidated Mines Is Negotiating For Sale Of Huge Deposit
The largest chromite deposit in
the world, 10.000.000 tons of low grade ore, is the chief property of Consolidated Mines, Inc., although news was received recently that meeting with the company is favourable results on the develop ment of gold lode claims in the
Paracale district.
Consolidated Mines has a. con- tract with Benguet Consolidated whereby that company will oper- ate the chromite mines on a pro- it-sharing basis. This contract
burned. The remainder of the crew and passengers are all safe.
The vessel was loading copra preparatory to sailing for the United States via Manila, China and Japan when the incident oc- curred. Reuter.
HOME RACE BETTING
Steward's Cup And St. Leger
London, July 20. The following is to-day's call-
100/9 Overcoat 0.
has been in effect for some time, over for the Steward's Cup:- and the property has been tho- roughly developed. The are is now blocked out, and the work of build- through Shanghai, bound for was Borneo, to take up his important teresting by the fact that from ing a road from the mine to a work, but in the middle of his ex- Haifa to Gibraltet, on the home-port near Masinloc, in Zambales is periments he was interrupted by | ward vayage, the vessel had as the war, and left, when summon-passengers the Emperor of Abys ed by the Negus, to organize the sinia, the Crown Prince, the Duke worked by Consolidated Mines in
now going on.
Several properties are being
the Paracale district, but of these Red Cross unit of the Ethiopian of Harrar, Princess Taahai, and
the Tumbaga mine has shown best Army. This he did successfully Gen. Ras Kassa. The party em- until the final conquest of the barked in the cruiser after night-to date. W. G. Donaldson, mining country by the Italian forces put fall and occupied cabins vacaten engineer- for the company. return- an end to his work. Dr. Torrence by oficers. thereupon returned to England The Capetown's commission. port on this property.
100/9 Cora Deans o. 100/8 t 100/8 Dancing Comet t. and o. 100/8 Shalfcet o. 100/7 t 100/6 Constellate t. and o 100/6 Hans Sachs o. 18/1 t..
20/1 Embuche o. 25/1 t. 28/1 Barason d. 3371 t.
ST. LEGER.
Evens Rhodes Bcholar.
8/1 Mahmoud 1. and 0.
DOUBTFUL RUNNER -- 10/1 Precipitation t. and o.- ed Manila recently from Paracale
London, July 20. with an extremely, favourable re-
Dancing Comet met with a mis Courtney Whitney. president, hap while exercising and and George Scurte, chief engineer, doubtful runner in the Steward's the time the vessel was in the of Consolidated, are both in the Cup... here to Manila, from whence he Far East she visitéd Kobe United States now negotiating for Heuter,
has
now. terminating, been a very happy one. Duzini
and then started once again for which is the Far East via Canada, America, and Japan. He is proceeding from
W.
the sale of the chromite in co- operation with Judge John Haussermann of Benguet Mr. Scarfe has recently finished check- ing metallurgical tests of the ore, and favourable results have been reported.
Other omcers of the company Elicatio, Vice- Victoriano are
DAVIS CUP: TENNIS Crawford And McGrath Win Doubles
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SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, July, 20. London Silver prices to-day were unchanged" for "Spot" and up 1/16 for Forward," as follow:
July 18. July 20. ..19-5/8 19-5/8
19-5/8 19-11/18
Spot... Forward
NO MORE EASY JOBS
́A SHILLING A DAY`
FOR ALL
That all men
A Group of Boviet aviators are preparing a flight over the Cauca- sian Range. Three aeroplanes and six gliders, are participating in the flight. Two planes will tow three gliders each. During the course of the fight the slopes of the Caucasi- an Range will be surveyed and also. the possibility of soaring flights of gliders over the Range will be studied. The expedition is headed by the master of Soviet, glider sport, Sukomlin,
booked
"This in brief," the Generalis- simo emphasized, is the limit to China's struggle for peace and existence." Events during the past six months have convinced most people that the situation has not reached the point where there is no hope for peace. He. frankly told the Bession that, compared Among the passengers. with previously, the past six in Europe to connect with the months Indeed gave forth a grea- Empress of Russia from Vancou- ter ray of hope for peace.
ver July 11, due Hong Kong. July 30 are the under-noted:-Dr. and NOT A SECOND. ABY881NIA While the Fifth National Kun Mrs. I. Maxwell, Misses M. and R. mintang Congress was in session Maxwell, and Master W. M. Max- last November, the Italian-Ethio-Well, Miss M. Dian war was just beginning, and, route to Melbourne), Mr. and Mrs.
F M. Delfos. naturally, world opinion was in sympathy with Abyssinia, but un- fortunately to-day Abyssinia is a
Altcheson
(en
A short service in memory of
lost country. The defeat of Aby the late Dr. R. M. Glbion will be sinia, however, does not mean that held on Wednesday, July 22, at 8 except the King China should not follow the path in the Hop Yat Church, Bon- should receive a flat rate of is. ad Abyssinia On the other hand. ham Road The service will be in Chinese and will be conducted, day, in wartime is the suggestion Chins will not be afriad to be a Rev Cheung Chuk-ling. An in- of General Sir Ian Hamilton:
other Abyssinia if that is the only
A Commander-in-Chief of the way to save the nation and the vitation is given to all who would Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, race. "Though we are not afraid like to be present.
he directed the landing at Gall- to be another Abyssinis," the poll.
Generalissimo said, "we shall not.
nia."
forthcoming wedding is "Among other encouragements" be willing to be a second Abyss-Ranounced of Mr. Isidro Paredes, Private Secretary to the Speaker. to Aghting men; he writes in the
If the entire nation and au the National Assembly, Philipppines current issue of the "New Leader,"
Macalinao, residing at the "Hong "an order to this effect would pre- Kuomintang members, the Gene- Commonwealth, and Miss Pacita ralissimo pointed out, were able to vent high generals taking you stand together solidly under the Kong Hotel. in ulionaires on their personai ata, worthless as soldiers but useful as entertainers to leading politicians when on their trips to pick up a bubble or two in the trenches...
Four
Gentral Government, China could
cases of Enteric Fever never be a second Abyssinia. The existence or extinction of China were reported to the Health Au- is now in the hands of the Kuo-thorities for the 48 hours ended on mintang, and all the CE.C. and CBC. members particularly should-
July 19.
MY “SHACK" OFFICE shoulder their responsibility well discuss all these problems In a "As for myself, I doubt at the "Are we then," the Generalis-" | thorough-going mariner Dardanelles my own living costsimo asked, "to push the nation With perfert understanding and me for most of the other generals) along the unwalkable path when genuine co-operation, the Genera- a shilling a day. Tea, bully, beef, peace has not come to the stage lissimo stated, one and all will be biscuits and marmalade formed where there is no hope for peace? able to take up the duties of re-
had a very pleasant voyage uome President; B. W. Guys, treasure vivian McGrath (Austraila) beat the staple of by food. Are we to precipitate the extincsisting foreign aggression should-...
when she arrived in
expects he will fly to Borneo, xl-; (Japan), Shanghai, Hankow, and though perhaps facilities will not other ports. The cruiser proceed- be available for him to do so. ed 800 miles up the Yangtse, and from He said yesterday evening that was stationed at Hankow
April, 1935. it was necessary for him to finish November, 1934, to. his work in Borneo at the earliest Representatives of the ship's com possible time, so that he can get to pany engaged in the regatta at Wei-hal-wel; and while in Japan Calcutta for a "leprosy conference there that will take place either took part in football matches with The Capetown late this year or early next year. Japanese sides. Consequently, he will collect as
and much date as possible before go-
this port Plymouth was looking ing to India to present his report.
very attractive. About`a hundred Dr. Torrence was educated at
relative of omcers and men as- Rugby, and then went to the Uni-sembled on the wharf at the versity of Southern California, North Yard to await the arrival. where he received his degree. He
of the ship. was the leader of an expedition to Africa in 1922 to investigate sleep- ing sickness, While there he dis covered a tribe of hermaphrodites 1931-1932, and he led leprosy re- among the natives of Central search work in New Guinea in 1832 Africa. He has also led expedi- and Madagascar in 1933. Last tions to Borneo, Cochin China, year, he engaged in the same kind Burmo, and Siam. He aided in of work again in Borneo --
(N.OD.N.)) medical relief in Manchuria in
and M. C. Grcy, secretary.
COOLIE FALLS INTO
HARBOUR
While trying to smuggle some sugar on board the steamer which was lying alongside the new OSK Wharf, Chen Yu Chueh, a coole aged 25. years fell into the harbour and is suspected to have been drowned
London, July 20. In the European Zone of the Davis Cup... Jack Crawford and
Baron von Cramm and Hein- rich Henkel (Germany) in their doubles encounter 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, Australia, is thus leading Ger- many by two matches to one- Neuter.
DANCER DEAD
Bayonnes, July 20. Argentina, the famous Spanish-American auto dancer, has Tile incident occurred about 2 died middenly of heart attack at p.m. yesterday. The man ved at the age of 15, No. 35, First Street,
Reuters Bulletin Service.
"My tent was tiny; I could not tion of the nation just because of er to shoulder in the event of UL- stand up in it. Hard by was my one moment's impulse when the avoidable eventualities. Since the office, a shack like a bathing-ma-nation still has hope of salvation?" conclusion of the Fifth National chine, made of rough planks." ** MAN NATIONAL DEFENCE Kuomintang Congress, the Central
In a recent speech General Sir The Generalastmo -“ answered Government has spared no effort. Ian Hamilton declared that rela- these questions by saying he was in the task of national salvation tives, and dependents of soldiers conndent that all those who - on the basis of the policy explain- should be looked after better than derstand clearly the forelun policy eu above. had been the caseras
of the National Government would in conclusion Gen Chiang ex-
He quoted the instance of the not lightly take such a step. The pressed the hope that the OEC wife of the fighting man shop purpose of organizing a National and CBC members from the ping with only a fe shillings in Defence Conference was to hope Southwest attending the Plenary her purse, while the wife of the that the various responsible mill Session will convey the policy or stay-at-home worker could produce tary leaders in all sections of the the Central Government to the
country, would come together and Southwest leaders. a treasury note.:
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