NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ADVERTISEMENTS.
GOVERNMENT BILLS,
etc.
TENDERS for DOLLARS current in this Colony, for tele. graphic transfer, on the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, London, up to and for the sum of £50,000 will be ro ceived by the Treasury Chest Oficer, Command Pay Office, un- til I o'clock am, on the 21st September, 1936...
The tenders to state the total amount (in pounds sterling). No telegraphic transfer will be made far less than £100.
The tenders to be in duplicate, and in sealed covers, addressed, to the Treasury Chest Officer, Com. mand Pay Office,, and endorsed "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 be had on application.
are hereby notified that having "Persons tendering for (Bills) 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. ject to the express condition that 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).".
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG
REEL CLUB
the
The tenth Anguil General Meeting of the Hong Kong Reel Club will take place at Helena May Institute on Mon day, 21st September at 5.15 p.m.
All members and prospective members are particularly request. ed to attend. The first practice of the season will commence im mediately after the meeting and practices will be held on each successive Monday up to 23rd November.
T. P. SAUNDERSON,
Hon. Secretary.
THE AVIATION
SERVICE
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The Volunteer Air Arm's Camp
the Aviation Service in St. John's coincides with the date chosen for Cathedral. It has therefore been decided to postpone the Service from September 27th to Novem
ber 15th.
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THE HONG KONG LAND
INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO., LTD.
4% DEBENTURES
NOTICE
IS HEREBY
"The provisions in question do not apply to Contracts entered into by any incorporated Com. pany in its corporated capacity | GIVEN that INTEREST for the and made for the general benefit six months ending the 30th SEP TEMBER, 1936, on the above of the Company."
DEBENTURES will be payable at the OFFICES of the COM. PANY on, that date,"
L. J. LIGHTFOOT,
Colonel, R. A. P. C., Treasury Chest Officer,
His Majesty's Treasury
Office,
Hong Kong.
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HONG KONG, September 21, 1938.
THE CINEMA HABIT
ANTI-JAPANESE INCIDENTS
Constable Killed In Hankow
GUNMAN ESCAPES
Nanking, Sept. 20.
It appears now that the Japan- ese in various parts of China are the centre of trouble these day s when one incident follows another. While the Chengtu and Pakhol Incidents are still outstanding and facts relating to them have not of fresh come to light, reports outrages come to hand.
A message from Hankow states that a Japanese constable was fired 1s "bread and circuses
·assassin, inTM. at by an unknown the final explanation of Britain'sflicting two fatal wounds. The con→ failure in the Olympic Games stable was immediately removed to and elsewhere? Some compara a hospital, and in spite of medical treatment the man succumbed. tive figures of film-going, which The assassin made good his ex- have just been published, suggest cape. that it might be. In Germany, according to these figures, 8.6 per cent, of the population at- tends a cinems at least once a week; in France, 16 per cent
Britain, 41.3 per cent. Britain's figure is surpassed only in
by Australia, where 64 per cent. of the population attends a cinema once a week, and, sur prisingly, is higher than that of the United States.
No doubt national economic
circumstances are a part cause of these disparities. In Germany, where film-going is a declining pastime. wages are declining too and there are counter-spectacles, sometimes morally compulsory, which we would not willingly have here. In France there are cafes where a man can take his wife and family to pass the evening in company with other In the men and their families. United States a great part of the scattered population lives in DE.communities (though it might have been thought that the motor car, there ubiquitous, would have cancelled this factor). Of all the countries usmed. Britain is the most urban and therefore the country in which the cinema call most easily make a profit.. More- By Order of the Board of over, Englishmen cannot, as men Directors,
THE REGISTER OF BENTURES will be closed from THURSDAY, the 24th SEP. 4700 TEMBER, to WEDNESDAY, the 30th SEPTEMBER, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of DEBEN. TURES can be registered.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB. **
The Seventh Extra Race Meet. ing will be held (weather per mitting) at HAPPY, VALLEY od Saturday, 26th September, 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
"By Order,
S. A. SLEAP.
Actg. Secretary. Hong Kong, 21st Sept. 1936.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
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PROBATE JURISDICTION
IN THE GOODS of John Bryant late of 15 Ridgeway Gardens Redbridge Lane Ilford in the County of Essex
0. EAGER,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 17th Sept., 1936. 4690
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CANTON-SHANGHAI RADIO PHONE
Canton, Sept, 20. The wireless sending and receiv-
in other lands do, plan ac ant- door excursion even a day ahead with any certainty that the weather will be suitable for it. What this means to the cinema may best be seen on a wet Bank Holiday.
But when every possible factor is taken into account, our cinema attendance remains
relatively high and somewhat disturbing In the modern cinema there is no harm to physical health and with the modern film little harm to anything else. This is (and we hope will always remain) a
ing station at Shek Pal being completed, and in working order. and experiments having been sac- cessfully made with the city Wire- less Telephone Station, it is report-country in which a man is free ed that it will be possible to send telephone messages in October next to Nanking. Pelping. Tientsin and Japan
It is also possible to telephone to Hankow, and it is reported that Shiu Kwan. Wel Yang. Swatow, Chung Shan and Kongmoon will soon be in wireless telephonic com-
munication with each other.--
formerly of Westborough Chinese Evening Press. School Road Charlton Kings
near
the Cheltenham in County of Gloucester, Eng- land, Retired Mariner, de- ceased.
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CENTRAL BANK BRANCH
Canton, Sept. 19. NOTICE IS HEREBY In view of the Government's GIVEN that the Court has, by remedial measures in connection virtue of Section 58 of the with currency matters, it is report- Probates Ordinance 1897, made ed that the Central Government an Order limiting the time for has decided to establish a branch
of the Central Bank 'n Canton. creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 12th. day of Octo ber, 1936,
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All Creditors and others are accordingly hereby required to send their cisims to the under. signed on or before that date,
Dated the 14th day of Septem- ber, 1936.
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JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Sole Executrix, The Hong Kong & Shanghaj Bank Building,
Des Voeux Road Central," Victoria, Hong Kong.
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Accordingly. the Head Office bas appointed Mr. Chow Shau-lang. assistant manager, and Mr. L Chuek-sang, assistant treasurer to attend to the matter, and having settled everything connected with the Branch the establishing of Office, they are now returning to Shanghai to report.
The Canton Branch will be open- ed for business on the 1st October next, and Mr. Keung Chung. manager of the Hankow Branch, has been appointed manager of the Oanton Branch.
to choose his leisure occupation. Yet even its advocates would not claim that the cinema demande any strenuous mental or physical exercise; and, as it flourishes, the more active leisure occupa tions decline. Is it impossible to redress the national balance by bringing the more active oc cupations within easy reach of all? Hackneyed as they are, the lessons of the old Roman Empire are still good.
-GAMBLING BÁN RUINS SHOPS
Manufacturers Forced To Suspend, Business
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Canton, Sept. 19. As a consequence of the ban against gambling, forty-eight shops' that manufactured man-jong sets and other gambling" apparatus in the city have suspended business, according to recent statistica
The victim at the time when the
was on outrage occurred duty on a wharf in the Japanese Concession. When he received the first shot and was about to return
1936.
SLASHING ATTACK FROM
WHITE HOUSE
Notorious Newspaper Owner's Misleading Report
Washington, September 19.
A sensation has been caused by a slashing attack from the White House on a "certain notorious newspaper owner's in con- nection with the presidential campaign. No name has been mentioned.
The statement says the White House learned that the news- paper owner in question planned an attempt to give the impres sion that Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt passively accepts the sup- ∙port of allen organisations hostile to American form of Govern-
ment."
It adds that "much articles conceived in malice and born of political spite, are deliberately framed to give a false impres- sion. The "President does not want nor does he welcome the vote or support of any Individual or group taking orders from alien sources."-Reuter.
Patrol OPIUM TRAFFIC
IN CHINA
are with his gun, a second shot was fred by the assallant. According to the
official
an.
nouncement by the Japanese Con
the Chinese
sulate-General in Hankow,
dressed' in gunman was
of this, supposition.
Serious Concern Felt In Geneva
TRADING FIFTY YEARS AGO
لله
NO PRICE CUTTING
Li
A comparison between retali trade half a century ago and that of to-day was made by Mr. D. A. Catesby (London) at the Summer School of the Drapers' Chamber of
Geneva, Sept. 19. The public session of the League clothes, but only very little credit could be given to this, as no de anite proof was given in support Council adopted the report on
The Chief of Police of the Chinopium traffic, expressing serious Trade at Oxford recently.
learning this news immediately ese city. Mr. Wu Kuc-ching, on telephoned to the Japanese Con- sul-General tendering his pathies and inquired if any help would be needed.
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"Futy years ago," he said, “you bought in the grand manner about, twice a year; now you are buy- ing nearly every minute. Neither was there. In those days all this trightful zest to cut your price one degree lower than your neighbour.
concern at the situation in China and declaring there is clear proof of continuance both north and south of the Great Wall of oplum production on an enormous scale as clandestine manufacture and extensive trade in narcotic drugs carried on partly by foreigners. The Council expressed gratification
"But the higher class stores had at the Chinese six-year plan for got something we are probably in putting an end to cultivation and danger of losing. They had a pro-
A state of emergency clared in the Japanese Concession after the incident, and all passers by were subjected to vigilant search. A party of Japanese marines was landed on the scene, but later re-king of opium.
turned to their warship.
A meeting of the Japanese Con- sul-General, the Commodore of the Japanese warships stationed at
Dayal Hankow, the military and attaches of the Japanese Consulate- General in Hankow was held, and it is learned, they decided, Inter alla, to request the Chinese au- thorities to hurt the culprit.
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SWATOW REPORT A further report of a similar from Dature has been received Swatow.
of. A Japanese The proprietor restaurant reported to the Chinese
Police authorities that a "bomb" had been found in his place. The "bomb" was wrapped up in a piece of cloth and was later found to
be a hand-grenade. He submitted that it was thrown into his res-
taurant from the backyard.
An officer was immediately sent to the scene and it was revealed that the hand-grenade could not have been thrown into the place. since the wall at the back of the building was exceptionally high The fact that the hand-grenade did not explode with such meat force (considering the height of hand. the wall over which the grenade was thrown), led the police con- come to the authorities to clusion that the deadly weapon of war was not thrown into the build- ing at all--
Da-Dao News Service,
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY
Readjustment Conference Held On Saturday
Referring to Japan, the report says there are conclusive proots of the existence of organised traffic in drugs, particularly cocaine, of Japanese origin to North America. other Far Pastern India and territories.- Reuter.
SINO-JAPANESE TENSION
Troops Clash At Fengtai
Peiping. Sept. 19. Considerable tension prevails here as a result of a collision be- tween Chinese and Japanese troups at Fengtal, 15 miles south of Pei-. ping. last evening, following an alleged insult to a Japanese cf- horseback by. Chinese acer an sentries. Although there was con-. siderable fring there were no can- ualties.
While the parties are still con-
fessional atmosphere towards their
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"You see survivals in the really fine hand work retail businesses of to-day, such as the gunsmith. Can you imagine a really good gunsmith customer to go away allowing a with a gun that did not suit him? the "But does it really disturb retailer of to-day when he sells a consumer a product-advertised or otherwise-whether it is really in the best interests of the consumer to buy that particular product?" Mr. Catesby sald that histori- cally retailing had passed rather swiftly through similar stages to the feudal baron who acquired his land like Mussolini and became re- spectable afterwards, and the great manufacturers of the early 19th Century,
EUROPE'S LARGEST PIPE ORGAN
Nuremberg, Sept. 19. Europe's largest pipe organ was
KWANGSI CHIEF AT WHAMPOA
Cordial Meeting With Chiang
Canton, Sept 19.
The meeting between Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and General LI Teung-jen at Whampoa was most The two revo.adonary cordial. leaders have not met for eight or nine years owing to political dif- ferences, and the knowledge of their reconciliation is most grati- fying to those who have the wei- fare of China at heart.
on the 18th instant, At 9 a.m. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and General Chin Ta-quin called per- seg at sonally
Kal Yuan, to Genera's Li Tsung-jen and Wang short Shao-hung. and after a friendly chai, Marshal Chiang Kai- shek returned to Whampoa.
Shortly afterwards, Generals Li and Wang called to see Mr. Kooy Ching, President of the Judicial Yuan, and at 10.40 a.m. Generals L! Tsung-jen and Wang Shao- hung. together with Generals Ching Chim, Liu Way-chang and several others proceeded to the Whampoa Administration Building to see Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and they received a most cordial. welcome.
with
They remained for two hours, and it transpires that the matters discussed were connected Party, Government, "Any
of Kwangsi Finance questions Province...
and
At 1 p.m. the party were enter- tained to tiffin by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, when wine and chatter howed freely up to 2.30 pm, when the discussions were resumed, and at 4 p.m. Generals LA Tsung-jen, Wang Shao-hung and party re- turned to Canton.
It is reported that as soon as all outstanding questions have been settled. Generals Li Tsung-jen and Wang Shao-hung will return to Kwangsi
MATTERS DISCUSSED
It is gathered from reliable official sources that the following matters were discussed, viz:
(d) All volunteer divisions of the Kwangsi army to be disbanded and sent back to their farms and fields.
(b) The troops of General Yung Shao-woon to be withdrawn from Pakhol and sent back to Kwangsi. (c) The Kwangsi Pacification
Oface to be or Commissioner's ganized in accordance with the general instructions of the Central Government.
(d) General Pe; Chung-hat's de- parture for abroad for the purpose of studying and investigating the military affairs of the different countries to await the settlement of all outstanding questions con- nected with the rehabilitation of Kwangsi Province.
(e) The question of the most sultable place for the establishment" or the headquarters of the Pacif-
Province to be decided.
fronting each other negotiations played for the first time before cation Commissioner of Kwangsi
thousands in Nuremberg's festival hall at the recent Party Congress between high Chinese and Japa nese officials are proceding for a
This gigantic Instrument, peaceful settlement of the incident, bere.
Later: The Fengtai incident has containing 16,013 pipes, of which the largest is 12 metres long and been settled by the Chinese eva-
the smallest 1 centimetre, was new cuating their barracks and leav.
especially designed for the are ing Fengtal. The Japanese now occupying the Chinese bar- racks and wholly control the town. Reuter.
- SITUATION NORMAL
Peiping, Sept. 20. Chinese troops completed evacu- ated the Fengtai area this morn- ing, transferring to Lokowchino, a few miles southwest of Pelping. The situation at Fengtal is now normal. It is learned that an understanding was reached be- tween the Japanese military and Chinese authorities and in future no Chinese troops will be allowed to be stationed in the Fengtai.
According to advices received in the Colony, the opening of the readjustment conference for the Canton-Hankow Railway took place on Saturday in Canton at the area.-. Railway Administration Headquar ters.
The conference should have been held last Thursday, states the "Canton Gazette," but due to the departure of Messrs. L1 8-kan and Lu-chao, members of the committee for Hong Kong, it was unavoidably postponed.
BEDWAS COLLIERY DISPUTE
London. Sept. 19. The owners of Bedwas Collie folowing a meeting with the South Walea Miners Federation, have accepted the principle of a secret ballet among the Bedwas miners on the question of membership of the Federation In consequence of
Sters have been taken by the Adairs to Department of Civil destroy all, mah-jong sets and gambling accessories within one Mr. Chang, and his staff of over month, and those who are found twenty persons arrived in Hons to be in possession of sich shall Kong by the President McKinley be regarded as violating the Gam- "yesterday evening, and will pro-bling Suppression, regulations and this a much more optimistic out-
ceed to Canton to-day-
heavy penalty shall be meted out look prev accordingly."Canton Gazette." Chinese Evening Pren
Renter
AIR-COOLED CARS ON RAILWAY
The organ
Congress Hall, where it will be in- stalled later and used to accom- pany mess singing. contains five manuals, one pedal and a special amplifying system, so "that there will be uniformity of
tone. In the entire gigantic ball Transocian News Service.
MASS MARRIAGE
IL is reported that the Harle
to hold its second mass marriage Kong Chinese Y.M.C.A. has decided ceremony on the Double Tenth Anniverary of the Chinese Re- public, Le October 10, 1938..
There
will be twenty-eight couples to be married on this day, and preparations are being made for the ceremony.
It is mid that the young couples' Canton, Sept. 20. the intense heat of fitness for marriage is being in- Owing to
the vestigated, and that they will be the summer months, and numerous complaints of passen-addressed by Mrs. Wong Kwok gers, it is reported that the fong, Professor Hsu T-shan, and Superintendent of the British Sec Dr. Cheung, Fat-yin before the mass marriage ceremony takes tion of the Canton-Kowloon Rall-
way has reserved a sum of $4,000, place.-- for the purpose of experimenting | Chinen Evening Pron. and converting one of the railway coaches into an air-cooled passen- ger car
It is believed that this air-cooled car will be a boon to the travelling
next summer, and that the pubic during the hot months of Canton-Kowloon Ral way will be the first in Asia to introduce atr cooled passenger. cars→→→ Chinese Evening Pres.
NOVEL CHANNEL CROSSING
London, Sept. 19.
It has been suggested that the of the Kwangs present seat Government be removed to Kwel- in as Kwellin is nearer to Nan- king, and besides it has a healthier climate. and ts. free from floods and inundations.
The reorganization of the Fifth Route Army under the commana of General Li Trung-jen will be announced on October 1, and the Central Government has agreed to the expenditure of $2,500,000 for maintenance. provided the Central Government colects and controls the revenue of Kwangst Province.- Chinese Evening Post-
GEN. PET'S VISIT
Canton, Sept 20. At il am. on the 19th instant Generals Li Tsung-Jen and Wang Shao-hung had another conference. with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at Whampon, in order to continue the discussions regarding matters com-** nected with the rehabilitations of Kwangsi Province.
It is reported that after the settlement of all minor details, Generals La Ting-jen, and Wang shao-hung will return to Kwangs on, or about the 21st instant, when Marshal Chiang Kai-shek hopes General Pet Chung-had witt be able
to come to Canton
However, General Pef Chung-hat has to attend to the reorganization of the military forces of Kwangal but, when this is completed, he is expected to leave for Canten im mediately to submit full report to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. Chinete Evening Post.
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