ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Certificate No.. 5/NS. 7710 dated Hongkong 17th June 1922 for four shares of this Bank numbered 4932/4935 regis. tered in the name of Mr. Duncan Murdoch Cameron and Certificate No. 6/NS: 7711 dated Hongkong 17th June 1922 for four s shares numbered 93283/93284 and 132370/132371 in the name of Miss Elizabeth Beatrice Cameron 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
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.′′
MISHAP AT POPULAR
BATHING BEACH
Sampan Capsizes
With Party Aboard
TWO PORTUGUESE
THROWN INTO WATER
BOTH INJURED
An
accident which might have had more serious sequences' had not assistance been rendered immediately, marred a plenie on Sunday wherein some eighty members of the Portu- guese community went to Clear Water Bay.
con-
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The party, mostly from the Club.
de Recrelo, lett Kowloon at 8 á.m.
QUEEN WILHELMINA
NEW PEACE FORMULA
be thereafter treated by this Cor- and arrived at Clear Water Bay POLICE OFFICER | Nanking-Kwangsi
poration as Null and Void.
"By Order of the Board of
Directors.
Editorial
V. M. GRAYBURN,
Chlet Manager.
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and Business Office: 15-18. Queen's Road Central Tel. 30251. Night Editor Wanchal Office):
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two hours later. Picnickers disem- barked from the launch to the shore by means of sampans which were rowed by two men.
PASSES
Sergeant Mintey Of The C.I.D.
The third trip was about to be- gin when some of the party, in get- ting on board the sampan, step- ped on to the side and so pre- cipitated those already on board.
The death occurred at the Gov- Into, the water. The casiness with
Civil Hospital shortly which the sampan turned was the 'ernment direct result of the round bottom, after 11 o'clock last nigh; of Ser- geant Fred Minter a very popular of the boat.
member of the Criminal Investiga- tion Department of the Hong Kong
Two of the ladies were injured, slightly but suffered mainly from shock. Miss Alda Noronha was hit by one of the male members of the
Police.
It was only three weeks ago that
Dispute
MISSION LEAVING
FOR NANNING
Shanghai. Sept. 1. A new formula for a peaceful solution of the Kwangst embroglie has been reportedly completed by General Chiang Kai-shek following an important conference of high Government officials in Canton.
The peace mission including Dr. Chung-hul and II. Chu Wang
Judicial years' service, returned from home Yuan, is expected to leave for Nan-
Cheng President of the leave. He was posted to Shauki-ning by air to-day to present Gen- wan and a few days ago was trans-erai Chiang Kai-shek's new peace terms, detalls of which have not ferred to West Point on CID. duty
been divulged. Sergeant Mintey played cricket useful left hand bowler. for the Police, Club, being a very
London Office; 53. "Fleet Street party in the fall. She was quick-the deceased officer, who had six
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The Baily Press.
HONG KONG SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.
MENUS ARE
NOT ALWAYS
MEANINGLESS
ly dragged from the water and was given medical assistance. The shock and sudden immersion in- capacitated Miss Noronha for about
half-an-hour.
Miss M. Remedios was struck glancing blow. by the overturalog
recovered. boat. She soon ever and was none the worse for
the mishap.
how-
NORTH CHINA CUSTOMS
Alleged New Move In Hopei
The
Peiping, Sept. 1. virtual separation of the
He halled from Walsall, near Birmingham, and was 29 years ok. He was unmarried and leaves a brother in England.
HOME AIR MAIL WILL. BE LATE
20
Dorado Due
Meanwhile the Kwangsl troops who invaded south western Kwangtung are reported to be digging in and building elaborate defence works at Hapa.- Reuter.
WAR DANGER INCREASES
Bellicose Attitude In Kwangsi
Canton, Sept. 1. The danger of the imminent been outbreak of hostilities. has increased by the resolute and bellicose attitude of General "Tsal
非
DUTCH QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY
In celebration of the Birthday of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands a most enjoyable "Rijstlafel" party was held on Sunday at the residence of the President
of the Dutch Club, Mr. J. C. Mantel, who is the popular manager of the Netherlands Trading Society.
SOONG INVITED TO CANTON
Development Work In Sight
Canton, Sept. 1.
IL is reported that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has telegraphed lo Mr. T. V. Soong, Head of the National Economic Council, invit- ing him to Canton to consider im- portant schemes for the develop ment of the ndustry and commerce of the Kwangtung Province.
Accordingly, Mr. T. V. Soong has decided to leave Shanghai for Can- ton on or before September 10.
The gold and stiver Currency
Here To-day Ting-kal and the other leaders of questions will be also dealt with,
East)
the 19th Route Army, which has been recently recruited and reor- ganized under General Tsai's pedsonal supervision.
Apropos of the special article in the "Hong Kong Daily Press" on Saturday cutitled, Are Menus Meaningless?" it is interesting customs of North China from the national system is seen in the re- port
that the Hopel-Chahar Council is collecting from Septem- ber 1 a tax amounting to one-sector of their mam route has ne-issued at Nanning by Generals eighth of the regular tariff on "special goods."
to note that at Montreux recently M. Latvinof, Soviet's sugve Com missar for Foreign Affairs, ob jected, it is reported, to the iten on a bill of fare, Fraises i la Romanoff. Doubtless, he. islt] that the deep crimson of the strawberries should have suggest ed an appellation more modern, than the "ancien regime", and, incidentally. one perhaps, more uppropriate in colour.
This specification applies to sea- borne goods entering. Tsangbaien and Yeahslen, south" of Tientsin. for watch payment of the regular customs duties has been evaded hitherto,
action.
These goods have been liable to seizure by the Customs, but in fu- ture if the Hopel-Chahar Council's The incident recalls the disorder is enforced, goods paying the turbance to another famous new levy will be immune from such sian, this time an operatic prima
It is feared the order will" serl- donna. Lydia Lipkowaka, interously affect the national customs nationally famed coloratura, was revenue, and consequently the loan a brilliant and beloved member services secured there, as the "spec- ial goods" will inevitably filter into
NO KNOWLEDGE
Shanghai, Sept. 1
A Central Government spokes-
of the Boston Opera Company all parts of the country.-- when the city on the Charles pauseased its own excellent troupe of singing artists. To Life dining room of her hotel nuc. Lipkowska bad invited quite a large party of friends. „
Hardly were they seated when their bosteas
visibly
became
man says the Nanking authorities have not heard anything concern-
ing a new Hopel-Chahar tax. He added if such an order had been
tsaued it must refer to the locat taxes and has nothing to do with
agitated. The headwaiter huri national customs tarifs.-- nd up, disappeared hastily, and | Reuter,«
the hotel manager came bowing,
Gesticulations, reproaches, ux-
euses, profound regrets. All un- availing, Mme. Lipkowska would not be appeased.
Neither could she be amused. By what right had they con- ferred her name upon a dessert! **Souffle a is Lipkoweka 1" "For- sooth, or words to that effect. The prima donna swept from the
QUEEN MARY ON VISIT
To Stay With Princess Royal
London, Sept. 1. Queen Mary reached Harrogate
table. The party made a drama-by rall last evening and motored
to Harewood House where Her
tic exit to make its entrance up Majesty will stay for a week with
on another scene,
the Princess Royal and Earl of
With that amazing prescience Harewood. peculiar to preas agents, it hap-British" Wireless,
pened that the talented and love-
ly singer's personal manager had
chosen that very same evening to to share with the public. It was All over the worid. invite a crowd of newspaper re-shared. 'porters to dinner at the same Mme. Lipkowska and the hotel hotel. So strange are the coin- management remained, of course, cidences in a publicity promoter's perfectly good friends and the career. Naturally enough, such men in the opera house box office a ripping story was too good for became busier than ever.
t
Imperial Airways (Far Limited request to, announce that a serious delay on the Persian Guli
cessitated the R. M. A. Dorado leav
A few days ago a manifesto was
Tsai Ting-kai and Chiang Kwong- ing Penang without the Europe nal announcing the resurrection
and Near East mail on board to en- able the Homeward, mails to be despatched from Hong Kong to schedule.
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The Europe and Home mails due in Hong Kong to-day will therefore arrive approximately one week late. "The R. M. A. Dorado was expečt- ed to leave Penang with malls from India. Malaya and Australia at 10 a.m. yesterday morning.
She, is due In Hong Kong this morning..
KWANGSI'S NEW AERODROME
Wuchow, Sept. 1. Owing to the old aerodrome site at Wuchow being damaged by the recent heavy rains, the Kwangsi military authorities have now de- cided to use the parade ground at Sham Kwok Tsui as a temporarily aerodrome.
It is reported that the work of enlarging the aerodrome has a ready commenced and nobody is allowed to enter the ground dur- Ing working hours- Chinese Evening Past.
SINO JAPANESE CO.OPERATION
Mr. Wang To Carry Out Plans
Shanghai, Sept. 1. Mr. Wang Keh-min, chairman of the financial committee of the Hopel-Chahar Political Council is proceeding to Tsingtao this morn- ing en route to Peiping to formally assume his new post.
The Chinese press believes a gen- eral agreement has been reached
anent Sino-Japanese economic co- operation in North China and Mr. Wang is instructed to carry out the plans
Router.
and complete reorganisation of the 19th Route Army.
and an- nouncing their determination to fight and resist Invaders and exterminate traitors, and the greatest enthusiasm prevails in the army.
Generals Li Tsung-Jen and Pei Chung-hat have sent General Tsal Ting-kai 30.000 well-trained re- eruits to be incorporated in the 19th Route Army as the 61st and 78th Divisions. and it is stated that South-West Kwangtung will be permanently occupied."
Owing to the occupation of Lim Kong by the Kwangri troops, troops under · General Yung and
the great activity of the Kwangs military leaders, the local inhabi- tants are much excited and alarmed.
It is also reported that Mr. Eugene Chen has secretly arrived in Nanning, where he is busy conferring with
Kwangs leaders.
the
SUSPECTS ARRESTED Since General Tsai. Ting-kal's return to Kwangs he has been bustly engaged in recruiting men for the reorganization of the 19th Route Army.
It is reported that on August 28, three suspects believed to have been sent by General Tsai Ting- kai as recruiting officers were arrested here on secret informa tion, and have been detained at the Army Headquarters for |questioning.—
Chinese Evening Post.
AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE
and likewise measures for the deve ment of the important and valuable mineral and natural resources of Hainan Island,"
It is well-known that Mr. T. V. Soong has been most successful in and developing Bhenst, Kansu
Shans during recent years, and it is hoped that he will be equally successful in developing Kwang- tung, Kwangsi, Hunan and Kangal
Provinces.-
Chinese Evening Post.
CENTRAL TROOPS ON MOVE
Nanning. Sept. 1. It is reported that troops of the
IS LIFE DRAB?
If You Think So-
Then Read This
THEY WERE TIRED OF THE CITY. FOR A YOUNG COUPLE, MARRIED ONLY THREE YEARS. THEY SEEMED UNUSUALLY PREMATURE IN THEIR DESIRE FOR THE COUNTRY.
home
But they finally found a that figuratively called to them. I don't know that you could really call it a home. It may have been one once. It is one now. But the interval between covered many years
I saw the place before they pur- chased it and found it difficult to wax enthusiastic, but perhaps lack- ed the foresight or the longing they
had.
The old place "slouched by the roadalde. There were four century ald rock maples, equally spaced. between the buildings and the road. The view was magnlacent-great rolling hills of amber and squares
of field, a trip of sparkling river far below. Then mile upon mile
But the young couple bought it for a small fraction of their sav- And each week-end they. nigs. rushed out of the city to carry on the renaissance.
For four years they saved and worked, secute in a growing affec- tion for the country place and its possibilities. They began by tear- the ing out everything except frame. Even the chimney was torn down. Then, bit by bit, they rebra- ced the sagging underpinning, laid new flooring, and put in walls of specially prepared plaster. A white sink replaced the old rusty one. The
attic became two finished rooms. They hired a mason to build a new chimney.
I went to see the place again, four years after my first visit. The qulet beauty that had grown out of breathless view.
But it was the condition of the of such hopelessness fairly en- house that dampened my enthu-thralled me. They haven't a large giasm.
There were four rooms income. They can't even afford. their old car. But by careful 'say- downstairs and an unfinished at-
tie reached by a rickety ladder. Alling-yes, even self-denial-they the plastering was either gone, have created security and hap- leaving skeletal strips of lathing, or piness. was blackened beyond all hope
Their plans for the future "seem
2.
In a way I envy them. They have found a pleasure that reaps Its own reward. They can con-
The ceilings gaped into the darker almost endless, Running water recesses above. The Boors actually | pressured by a gasoline motor and moisture and a storage tank; a gas stove fed rippled, alternate drought having waged an endless from cylinders, an oll heater, Central Government under Gene-
tug-of-war. A rusty Iron sink, bra- cellar, a rock garden. ral Hu Chung-nam are on the more towards Ping Lok and Kwet ced by crude wooden cross-pleces, Lin of Kwangsi Province, and are crowded into a lightless corner. co-operating with the troops un-Outside, strips of tar paper and der General Koo Chik-tung ad-add pieces of tin patched up a de-stantly improve their place and caying roof. The one chimney continually derive an increasing Aeroplanes of the Central Gov. leaned precariously, gaping fallen affection for it. They have made a
bricks like a teething youngster.wise investment--an ernment are making a daily re- The shingles on the walls were cur-
investment that promises far more than econo- connaissance of the Lou Chow led, blackened and veined with mic security. Ping Lok and Wachow. Districts of
many seasons of untended use. Kwangal Province.
vancing in the South.
· Chinese Evening Part.
HOME CRICKET RESULTS
Hammond Scores 317
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
A meeting of the Council of the Wing Lok Street, first and second Hong Kong Football Association doors to the eating house licence will be held in the Association | for No. 112, whole house; Nos. 108 Offices. King's Building, on Tues- day, September 8, at 5.30 p.m.
London, Sept. 1. The following were the results of
A dinner dance will be held on cricket matches concluded to-day :..
by 256 the Open Roof of Repulse Bay Lido Middlesex beat Burrey
Lord's. Middlesex 260-weather permitting and at the (Hendren 104, Gover 5 for 59) and Repulse Bay Hotel in event of bad 1280 (Hendren 301). Burrey 127 weather, on Wednesday, September
(Sims 8 for 45) and 187,
2 1936 at 9 p.m.
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Derbyshire, the champions, beat Leicestershire at Oakham by an innings and 66 runs. Leicester 151 London, Sept. 1. and 121. Derby 338 (Smith 169, Twenty three countries are re-Worthington 102). presented among the 200 delegates attending the fourth international conference of agricultural econom- ists which is proceeding at St. Andrew's University, Scotland. The
delegates were formally welcomed last night by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Walter Elliot British Wireless.
At home, Worcester beat Essex by 185 runs, Worcester 319 and 179. Essex 188 (Perks 6 for 60) and 125 (Howorth 5 for 50).
Gloucestershire, at home, beat Notts by an tunings and 70 runs Notts 209 and 215. Gloucester 485 (Hammond 317).—
·Renter.
Two cases of enteric fever were
and 110, frst, second and third Noors, Wing Lok Street. was grant- ed subject to the erection of an- other staircase in No. 108 and in- stallation of hard wood doors two inches thick, to the satisfaction of the Fire Brigade.
The annual general meeting of... St. Andrew's Club will be held in Bt. Andrew's, Church Hall on Sep- notified to the local Health Au- tember 24 at 9. p.m. thorities on Monday,
Twelve cases (one imported) with Mr. Henry Philbrick Nelson, the pus death from enteric fever, one briliant young English surgeon, fatal case from diphtheria, and 65 who died on June 24 from blood- deaths from tuberculosis were noti- poisoning, caused by a finger-prick fled to the local Health Authorities while operating, left estate of the during the week-ended August 28. value of £3,835. After his death
A a memorial fund for his family was opened by an appeal signed by Lord Horder and others.
At the Urban Council Meeting yesterday an application of No. 106,