NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE OFFICE APPLI ANCE CO., LTD.
Acting under instructions re- ceived from our Head Office I
THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in Queensland).
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have this day handed over this Notice of Declaration of laterim Office to Mr. J. V. ROBERTS
who henceforth assumes charge of this branch.
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Signed.
E. H. SHEKURY.
Hong Kong 2 836.
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THE OFFICE APPLI.. ANCE CO., LTD. HONG KONG BRANCH
have this day assumed charge of this Branch Office. Signed.
Dividend.
NOTICE is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of Four Pence per share on account of the financial year ending 31st March, 1937, has been declared the Directors of the Company by in Brisbane, payable on 11th September, 1936; to Shareholders on the Registers at Brisbane and Singapore on 10th September, 1936.
NOTICE is also hereby given that the Singapore Transfer Re. gisters will be closed from Friday, 4th September, to Thursday, 10th September, 1936, (both days Inclusive), for the preparation of 16:44 Dividend Warrants.
J. V. ROBERTS.
Hong kong, 22?3/36.
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Next term starts on Tuesday,
September 1st at 8.30 a.m.
New boys' tests will be held on Monday, August 31st at 9 a.m.
Entry forms, prospectuses and all particulars may be obtained from the Acting Headmaster. Telephone No. 57777,
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Local Secretarles. Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE, 14th August,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936.
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The Daily Press.
HUNG KONG, August 24, 1936.
BRITAIN'S TRADE INCREASING
st
MORE POWERFUL LEAGUE
French Proposals To Geneva
London, Aug. 22. The French Government has just communicated TO the Secretary General of the League of Nations a reply to the wish expressed by the Assembly on July 4, that the Gov- ernments forward proposals de signed to perfect the application of The the Covenant principles. French Government refers to their delegates' declarations before the Blum, Assembly where M. Leon President of the French Council. and affirmed France's attachment to the system of collective security and emphasised the necessity of modifying the Covenant by limit- ing "to the Powers geographically and politically closest to the at- tacked Power" the risk of lending military assistance to a State which is the victim of aggression.
UNANIMITY RULE
the
It is declared useless to amend
ROAD MISHAPS IN BRITAIN
Transport Ministry Analysis
HEAVIEST TOLL ON
. SATURDAY
A report is published by the Ministry of Transport giving an analysis of over 6,300 road ac- cidents in 1935, involving the deaths of nearly 6,500 people. The under- enquiry which has been taken as part of the campaign for road safety followed the same fines as that of 1933 "except that for the first time publicity is given to the ascribed causes of accidents on the basis of police reporta.
Perhaps the most surprising fact revealed is that Sunday is a day of the week with least accidents. Saturday has the most.
Thirty three per cent of the ac- cidents were the result of collision between moving vehicles and 47 per cent of
between moving vehicles and pedestrians. Thirty per cent. of the accidents
collisions
occurred at road junctions and 82
per cent. on straight roads or open road bends with good sight
From Monday to Friday the hours of the day with the largest number of accidents is between five and six in the evening and the second most dangerous hour
Mr. Runeman was aule to speak recently with much satis fuction of British trade during the past 12 months, and with quiet confidence of its imfediate prospects. The President of the
M. Yvon Deltics, Minister for Board of Trade believes that with
the industrial pesce at home and "no Foreign Affairs, had emphasised major developments of a dis- the necessity of increased
League's authority without sacri- tracting character abroad" the
Acing any "of the essential prifi- progress of the last three or four ciples of responsibility and collec- years will continue. The former tive action contained in the Coven- condition lies entirely within ourant," but improving the application jown control; the latter ressa with of the Covenant by seeking a prac-unes.
tical method to Increase others, and the dominating mo-
League's efficacy. tives which have recently deter- mined the course of events on 4626 the "Continent have not been, in the text of the Covenant. Imme is between 10 and 11 at night,
dustrial and "commercial. Not date effort must be directed to the til they turn again in that į direction can we hope for a real revival of international trade and the removal or mitigation of the
The French view considered it restrictive regulations which have necessary to prevent the abuse of so effectually strangled it during the unanimity rule with regard to the last six years. As Mr. Run. Article XI, and with regard to Ar- [3935 ciman expects no large-scale im.ticle XVI to ensure closer connec- tion between the measures of provement in the near future we economic and Anancial pressure cannot look for any rapid expau- and the employment of military sion in British exports. We have means, taking into consideration to be satisfied with the fact that the system of regional agreements. the improvement continues it declares that they remain faithful was £1.415,258 in the last six to these views, expressed before the months--and that the rate of Assembly, and reserve the right to British expansion is higher than give any necessary detalis later.- that of our trade rivals. ·
ELI Appointed Offices.
Moderate Rent.
Apply SECRETARY, - HONG KONG Stock EXCHANGE.
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CANTON CURRENCY
INVESTIGATION
Shanghai, August 23. - After staying in Canton for one mooth to make investigation into the currency situation in Kwang- tung before introducing the "big money" system, 'Messrs. Tang Bho m'n and Tsuyee Pel returned here the s.s. this afternoon aboard Empress of Japan
Central News.
for collective
action
conditions provided by Article XX and the re- pressive action provided by Ar- ticle XVI.
The French Government's letter
British Wircles.
GREAT FEAT BY AIRSHIP
Crossed Atlantic Twice In Five Daye
The tables in the report show how the death curve among pedestrians descends repidly after the age of eleven until it reaches its lowest point between 20 and 25 and then gradually rises again, steepening beyond the age of 55,
Ten per cent, of the pedestrians killed were under Ave, while more than 50 per cent. of those killed while crossing the road were 60 years and over. — British Wireless.
...
PASSENGER PLANE CRASHES
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Miss Paula Lecler and Max Schmelling on board the diri- ible Hindenburg crossing the Atlantic, shortly after the latter's bout with Joe Louis.
PICTURE OF MISERY IN
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SPANISH
TOWN
Victims Both Of Nature
And Of Man
London, August 2.
When I saw in the papers that the Government troops had captured Carmona, a little town some 20 miles from Seville," my mind went back to an afternoon which I spent there some three months ago, writes a correspondent." I was taken by a friend, an English artist who wanted to do some sketches beneath its walls. We were to have tez in a cafe in the town.
When we arrived the cafe was in ruins, having been burnt down a few days before, and the streets were crowded. I have never seen men and women on whose faces poverty, and bitter- ness were so deeply stamped. Even my friend, who had lived In Spain ever since the war, admitted that he was reifered when our car was on its way home and we were clear of this fierce curlò- sity. In foreign towns curiosity is generally neutral or even sym- pathetic, but in this case its hostility was painfully manifest.
The explanation (continues this correspondent) goes some way to
explain what has happened in LOCAL AND GENERAL Among the passengers booked
women
Spain. These men and were the victims both of nature
M. Buckland, Mr. and Mrs, HE Tancrelle.
and of man. Of nature, for the in Europe to connect with the Eli- incessant
had rain
paralysed PRESS OF ASIA from Vancouver agriculture for three months. It is on August 8 due Hong Kong, Aug- were the following:-Mr. not generally realised "how much ust 27
EL. Lewis, Mr. E.D.N."Lewis, Miss London, Aug. 22,
the new Government in Spain was News has been received in Lon-handicapped by this calamity, the don that the Imperial Airways worst spring, as some. Spaniards plane Scipio, bound from Alexand- said, for a hundred years. In con- ria to Brindisi, crashed when sequence money that would have alighting in Mirabella Gulf, off been spent on public works had to Crete. One passenger was killed go in relief of distress. and a second is missing, feared to have been drowned. The pilot and crew are safe.
Later: The Captain, three.mem- ber of the crew and the five other passengers were rescued, but all Berlin, August 22.
are believed to have been injured, The airship Hindenburg made The machine came down near the round trip of Germany, America Imperial Airways motor-yacht Im- and back to Germany within a peria, which participated in the
the rescue, week and actually crossed Atlantic twice within Ave daya | Reuter. The airship started from Frank- fort-on-Main
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NOTICE IS HEREBY
With the serious exceptions of GIVEN that the Certificate No,
cotton and coal our major in- 5/NS. 7710 dated Hongkong 17th
dustries have done extremely June 1922 for four shares of this
Arriving aboard the same vessel well. Mr. Runciman said that Bank numbered 4932/4935 regis was Lieut. General Huang Kwang-notton was not quite so depressed, tered in the name of Mr. Dancan jui, newly appointed President of Murdoch Cameron and Certificate the Central Aviation Academy, but he had little encouragement No. 6/NS. 7711 dated Hongkong order to wind up the affairs of trade. Whether it will be res- who recently left for Canton in to offer about the coal export 17th June 1922 for four shares the Kwangtung Air Force Head Lored with Italy now that Sanc- numbered 93283/93284 and quarters. General Huang, it is 132370/132371 in the name of tearned will proceed to Hangchow tions are removed remains to be Miss Elizabeth Beatrice Cameron to assume his new post shortly.seen. Too much has been made of the effect of Sanctions on the coal trade. The plain fact is that long before Sanctions came into WORKERS TO`MARCH [operation our exports of coal to
ON HANKOW Italy had fallen to small propor-August 17 and left Lakehurst, tions because cash payments were New-Jersey on her return trip at Shanghai, August 21.
7 am on Thursday, arriving at Speaking Frankfort at 3 a.m. A march on Hankow to demand difficult to obtain
on Saturday from the generally, exporters were advised their overdue wagea authorities has been planted by to rest their hopes on the cou several hundred workers of the tinned expansion of British trade Canton-Hankow railway, according with Empire countries and with 10 the local "Ta Kung Pao."
These workers have not been foreign countries within the sterl- paid for the past two months and ing area The President reported i their wages amount to approxt-favourably on the results of the mately $700,000.
It is doubtful, however, whether many, bilateral trade agreements
he has carried through. the Canton-Hankow line" will be able to meet this outstanding debt' in the near future, says the paper
have been Lost or Stolen, and should these certificates not be produced to the Bank before 6th September 1936, new certificates for the shares will be issued, and the aforesaid Certificates Nos. 6/NS. 7710 and 5/NS. 7711 will be thereafter treated by this Cor- poration as Null and Void.
By Order of the Board of
- Directors.
V. M. GRAYBURN, Chief Manager.
THE HONGKONG
CO., LTD.
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ELECTRIC│Union News.
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morning. leuter's Bulletin Service.
Halld
RADIO EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA
to
ONE BADLY INJURED
London, Aug. 22.
It is learned that a flying boat from Malta and the cruiser Durban from Halfa are going to Crete to help the injured survivors of the Scipio disaster.
Imperial Airways state that the fying boat was sunk by a rough sex when alighting at Mirabella Gulf in the normal course of the
voyage,
man.
News has been received in Hong Kong that Mr. F. W. Dawson. younger son of the late Mr. and But they were victims too of Mrs. E. W. Da on, of Hong Kong. nal law examina- Andalusia is a country of bas passed hi large estates, and these labourers tion at Oxforu with second class honours in Jurisprudence. Mr. were among the worst-treated men
13 articled to Messrs. in Europe. The Brat Azana Gov- Dawson ernment had passed a law provid-Willie, Hargrave & Co., of Leeds. ing a minimum wage, but for the last two years this law had been His Excellency the Governor-in- openly deded, and the large land- Council has ordered that the dura- owners were paying in these parts tion of the rights, powers and two instead of five pesetas a day, privileges granted, under the pro- In other ways their power had visions of the Rope Company's been used without mercy.
Tramway Ordinance, 1901, shall When I read of towns passing be extended for a period of one
year from December, 1938. from one side to the other in this terrible struggle I recollect all that I saw and heard of the causes of the fierce hatreds of which Spain is full-
The name of Mr. Godfrey Ver on Bird has been added to the list of authorized architects.
Twelve candidates were baptised pn Baturday morning in a litle stream near · Bibek-O beach by Pastors C. F. Larsen, and T. M.
To understand the full gravity of Franco's diabolical crime in intro- ducing civil war, and a war em- pittered by the use of Moors, into Spain it is necessary to remember Lee of the Seventh Day Adventist how deep and explosive these Only one Passenger, J. M.
hatreds are. The rising in the Church. The following candidates Draught, Was seriously Injured.
Asturias which the reactionary were baptised:-Mr. and Mrs. Tam The others had superficial cuts and measures provoked and its cruel
Tak-shing, Mrs. Chui Wah-yan, Misses Marjorie, Margaret, Gloria, Roste, Pearl and Ela Chan, Mar- garet Decker, Master Choi Kam- man and Mr. Stanley Chan.
bruises.--- Router.
'LINER MAKING GOOD TIME
• London, August 21. With the opening of the Radio No change was foreshadowed Exhibition at Olympia next Wed- in the Government's basic.com nesday the first public reception mercial policy. None was seri of high-definition television In Great Britain will be staged for ously expected, though an at-
the benefit of the crowds which tempt was made in certain quar-will visit the show during the ters to make out a case for a week. The transmissions will be larger volume of Protection, on from Alexandra Palace and will be the strength of the rapidly rising purely of an experimental nature, the British Broadcasting Corpora- volume of imports. These were tion states. They will be given on higher by £48,500,000 in the alternate days by the Baird and Experi- first half of this year than for Marcon EM system. the same period in 1935. The mental programmes will incor- left Southampton on Wednesday porate excerpts from films and also situation was described by one scenes in the studios and in the speaker as 'very alarming." and open air... Dealing with the Kwangtung as foreshadowing an inevitable} Britisk Wirelee, currency situation, Dr. Sun hoped return to the conditions of 1931: that the conversion - rate for Kwangtung subsidiary notes wil which compelled the change over
SUN FO'S VIEWS IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim Dividend of One
Nanking, Aug. 24. Dollar per Share has been
Belief that the Kwangst tua- declared for the six months ended tion will be peacefully settled if 30th June, 1936, and will be only Generals L and Pet will give - payable on and, after FRIDAY. up their provincial ideas was ex- pressed by Dr. Sun Fo who return 11th SEPTEMBER, 1936 ed here from Kuling to-day aboard Dividend Warrants may be obthe as. Kung Ho after a one-month tained on application at the Com- absence. pany's Registered Office, P. & Building
THE REGISTER OF SHARES of the Company will
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soon be fixed in order to prevent to Protection. But that is a foreign stuff at prices with which be CLOSED from MONDAY; speculators from manipulating the palpable exaggeration. Admitted- no British competition was poe 31st AUGUST, to THURSDAY, change value between the sub-ly, the import returns for the sible. The building boom, plus
sidiary notes and the legal tender. 10th SEPTEMBER (both days Central News. inclusive) during which period no transfer of shares can be register- ed.
By order of the Board of Directors.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
*
Fresh Bid For Record Crossing
London, Aug, 22 The RM.S. Queen Mary which
repression by Moroccan troops had spread throughout Spain a class war as bitter as any in Europe.
IRAQ SUPPORTS ARAB CAUSE
Jewish Encroachment. Resented
Entries for the annual swimming sports of the Hong Kong Police and Prison departments which closed on Baturday reached an unusually large number. The heats' will be swum of at the V.R.C. on Tuesday, September 8, the finals to be com pleted on Saturday, September 12.
During the week ended August Jerusalem, Aug: 21.
15 Calcutta reported 23 cases of on her sixth westward crossing of
The visit here of the Iraq For cholera and seven of smallpox, the Atlantic is at present well ahead of the French Kiner Nor- en Minister, who has already met while Bombay had 10 cases of mandle in her fresh bid for a re.the Palestine Arab leaders, has led smallpox, One case of the latter. cord for the westward crossing. to the report that the Arabian disease was
rulers contemplate intervention in Osaka, Up to noon to-day she steamed the prolonged war of tribesmen 1.984 miles at an average speed of
against constituted 30.08 knots, compared with the Normandie's average of 28.94 knots
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trip.
her record-breaking maiden
next six months will need to be Protection, saved the situation closely watched by certain in- from 1931 to 1935, and now The Queen Mary is now reported dustries, if the rate of expansion intense activity in other directions to be meeting moderate westerly continues, but for the moment is being created by the large gales.--... Mr. Runciman's view that "we Government orders in connection Reuter. can afford these additional im with rearmament. All the re-
backed by British troops.
authority,
also reported from
· The Annual smoking concert and distribution of prizes of the It is suggested the Iraq Foreign Fowloon Golf Club took place at Minister may bring proposals for the Club House on Saturday night the settlement of the trouble, when Mr. H. H, Mundy, President which is an outgrowth of the Arab of the Club, presided over a large resenment against the encroach gathering of members and friends.. ment of Jews upon land they have The entertainment was in the considered theirs for centuries. | hands of Mr. W. C. Simpson who | The "Ärab' strike, in protest against arranged an excellent programme
the continued and encouraged set for the occasion. tlement of Jews in Palestine, has
INDIA OFFICE
London, Aug. 21.
The Secretary for India has apports may be accepted as res cognised tests are favourable- pointed Mr. J. C. Walton to be sonable. After all, in 1931 the employment figures, railway re- Assistant Under-Secretary of State staple industries which are now turns, retail sales and even the The death has occurred of for India, on the appointment of
U.S. GOVERNOR PASSES
& CO., LTD.,
Agents.
#Hong Kong, 30th July, 1934B RELA Carter to be Perman / Working to capacity, were mink in blackest pots with one or two. B. Olson, Governor of Min-serious fosses in lite and property will be held in the Clubhouse;
ent Berretary of the Admiralty.---- the depths of depression, while exceptions are diminishing in nesota. 462% meitik Wireless...........
the market was flooded with number and intensity.
Reuter.
to both sides --- (North Point) on Wednesday: 24
5.45 0.m
Rochester, Aug.
23.
Mr.
grown into a form of guerilla war which has gone on for months with
The annual meeting of the
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Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club