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HONG FONG.
NOTICE.
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING wju be beld in the JACOBEAN ROOM, HONG KONG HOTEL at 5.30 p.m. 00 THURSDAY, 19th November, 1936.
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BUSINESS:
(1) To receive the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 30th September. 1936.
(2) To elect Officers for the
ensuing year.
B.H.C. HALLOWES, Hon. Secrciary.
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UNION INSURANCE- SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.
NOTICE TO SHARE
HOLDERS
Night Editor (Wancha) Offee):
Tel. 24311.
London Omee: 53. Meet Street
E.C. 4.
The Daily
Press.
BONG KONG, NOVEMBER 19, 1936.
VIA
Many a child gets a first dose. Latin from wondering what that queer word via neaus on the Inggage fubel. It can hardly be the name of a place. The abel already displays enough recognizable place names to account for departure and des. tination. A knowledgeable elder, is uppealed to, and a lingual acquaintance is begun which may in titue fade out in boredom and distaste, or may more rarely and more happily lead to enduring appreciation and affection.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM DIVIDEND OF 15s. (Fifteen
The convenient word is found Shillings) per Share on account of the year 1936 bas been useful in more than its plain "Back to declared payable on FRIDAY, geographical sense.
is no railway 20th NOVEMBER, 1936, on school via and after which date Dividend direction, but the invitation of one of those versatile emporia Warrants may be obtained on
which aim at supplying all the application at the Society's Registered Office; Union Build: necessaries and all the consula. cons calculated to smooth the ing Hong Kong.
NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO Futh of holiday-expired child and
that the SHARE Luxious parent.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936.
PARIS-TOKYO FLIGHT
Japy Held Up In Hong Kong
NON-STOP PLAN
UPSET
The Frerica aviator Japy, holder o the Paris-Saigon air record, who .pn a ght from Paris to Tokyo, arrived in Hong Kong yes- terday afternoon at 4 o'clock from Huriol.
Japy left Le Bourget aerodrome on Monday shortly after nova. calling at Damascus, Karachi and Allahabad. Wasting no time, he 10 o'clock yesterday morning and
carried on and reached Hanoi at
left there for Hong Kong at 12.30
p.m.
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It was the aviator's intention.
according to Information received
from the French Consulate here. to carry on to Tokyo non-stop at 7 p.m. yesterday, but owing to heavy head winds and bad weather conditions generally he decided to wait until 11 pm. and take of
This intention was apparently the upset by the decision of Japanese authorities not to permit him dy to Tokyo direct, but via Shanghai and Tlents'IL
REUTER MESSAGE
... A Reuter cable from Shanghol late last evening stated:
An order that he may not dy ever the fortified Japanese areas has been issued by the Ministry of Communication In Tokyo, and instructions have been sent to the French aliman Japy, who is on a flight from Paris to Tokyo. not to fly to Tokyo direct but via the Shanghal and Tientsin route.
Japy is at present held up in Hong Kong owing to bad weather.
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MONGOLS ACT IN SELF-DEFENCE
GIVEN TRANSFER BOOKS of the Via is indeed a shorthand ex- Society will be CLOSED- Irom pression of the truth that, ever: "MONDAY, 9th NOVEMBER, when beginning and end are to THURSDAY, 19th NOVEM-clearly defined, there is still im- BER, 1936, Both Days importance in the choice of passage. clusive.
from one to the other. It is not enough, for instance, that there should be a happy home and an attractive holiday resort. These terminals, excellent as they may be in themselves, must be linked A sem!-official statement claims defence action an the part of by a journey which may be plea
Mongol forces in attacking Sul- sant or detestable. according to
yuan on grounds that it is direct- the route taken and the painsed against communism expended on preparing for it
By Order of the Board, A. W. HUGHES, -
General Manager. Hong Kong, 7th Oct., 1936.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
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This brief Latinism suf- The Eleventh Extra Race Meet-marizes the spatial ficet of the ing will be held (weather per-world-old relationship between mitting) at HAPPY VALLEY ends and means.
· 1.30 p.m.
By Order,
means,
Adam and Eve on Saturday, 21st November,ought an obvious end, but disas
trously by forbidden 1936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at Their offspring are never free from the hazard of the ancestral pitfall. We are all conscious of the problein. An end is ardently desired. To compass it seems to promise the fullest satisfaction. To miss it threatens to rob every- thing of desirability and value. Surely any means likely to secure that end may be invoked.
S, A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary, Hong Kong, 16th Nov., 1936.
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German Councillor. On Leave
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Suiyuan Action
Changchun, Nov. 18.
The statement asserts that the Inner Mongolan authorities have been subjected to various forms of pressure by communists operating
in the neighbouring districts which
necessitated self-defensive action.
Informed quarters add that the Kwantung Army have nothing to
do with the situation, but as it is
the common desire of Japan and Manchouko to prevent inroads of communist influence in Mongolia, they naturally hoped the Mongol operations will be successfu-
Reuter.
WOUNDED ARRIVE
Pelping, Nov. 18. The purchase of ten thousand fur-lined overcoats for the defen- ders of Sutyuan is one of the ob- jectives of a nationwide appeal for funds launched by Perping stu-
The moralist counters with the question whether we should do evil tint good may come, and a dents. Among the passengers on the whole world of cusuistry opens
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A hundred wounded arrived at
"Gneisenau" due 10-morrow up. The problem presents itself Kwelhus from the front following from Shanghai is the Council-differyutly when the end, though the Aghting on Sunday and Mon-
day.-
jor of the German Embassy in clearly in view, seeius hardly Reuter, Nanking, Dr. M. Fischer accom- panied by Mrs. Fischer and their worth the trouble of a carefu}
children.
choice of means. That problem
Dr. Fischer, who has been act-calls for solution in each indivi- answerable for means and me. ing German Ambassador for the dual life. There beginning und-thod. It is a temptation, since last six months whilst Dr. Traus end are the same for all of us. the visible end of the individual mann, the German Ambassador Euch one of us must make the life seems to be mere cessation, was on furlough in Germany, la
journey from the cradle to the to assume that the way chosen Bow proceeding on home leave.
It is hoped that Dr. Fischer will grave. But, to an embarrassing to the inevitable end can be of return to Nanking, where he has degree of responsibility, what no great moment, and that. u a great circle of friends, both in shall lie between is left in our nan may as well follow his the German and in the Chinese own hands.
desires without being hampered community.
by intangible moralities.
BRITAIN AND HOLLAND
Friendship In Time Of War
The
TWO CHAMPIONS. TOGETHER
G. Bodiker, the well-known player who represented the Dents- che Garten Klub and E C. Fisher, of the K.C.C. mapped before their match in Canton last Sunday.
F.
A. CUP
First Round Draw
London, Nov. 18.
The Football Association Cup draw for the Brst round to be played on November 28 resulted as follows:--
Shildon v. Stalybridge Celtic. South Liverpool v. Morecambe. Lincoln City v. New Brightor. Accrington Stanley v. Northwich
Victoria or Wellington Town. York City Y. Hull City. Oldham v. Tranmere Rovers. Crewe Alexandra v. Rochdale. Blyth Spartans v. Wrexham. Rotherham United V.
=
Hartle-
pools. Burton Town v. Wigan Athletic. Barrow v. Mansfield Town. Frickley Colifery v. Southport Walsall y. Scunthorpe. Halifax v. Darlington. Boston United V. Spennymicor
United.
Carlisle United
:
میرا
Stockport
County, Gateshead v. Norts County. Crystal Palace Soutblend
United, Corinthians v. Bristol Rovers, ... Walthamstow "Avenue v. North-
ampton:
V.
Wells City or Rydesports
Gillingham. Queen's Park Rangers V.
Brighton and Hove.' Ipswich Town v. Watford. Bournemouth and Boscombe v
Harwich and Parkstone. Newport County v. Bristol City. Bath City Tunbridge Wells
Rangers,
Exeter City v. Folkestone, Yeovil and Petters v. Worthing. Cardiff City v. Southall. Aldershot Millwall. Ilford v. Reading. Clapton Orlent
United.
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JAPAN'S LATEST
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VENTURE
"Times" Comment
London, Nov. 18. 'Japan's genius for imitation is proverbial, but the latest venture does not promise to be as "pro- fitable as her previous borrowings from the West," says the "Times" in a leading article on the report | ed Italo-Japanese-German under-
standing.
Anticipating that the alliance, if it is officially published, will be described as purely defensive, the "Tunes' remarks that Russia's in- tentions at present were undoubt edly pacifc. Russia proferred and Japan rejected the idea of a non- aggression pact..
GERMAN-JAPANESE AGREEMENT
Commercial Arrangement And Political Accord
London, November 18.
reported German- The newspapers here, referring to the Japanese agreement, say it is believed to consist of a commercial barts arrangement providing for exchange of German munitions and munition manufacturing machinery and Japanese goods. together with a political agreement which apparently constitutes a common declaration against communi'm-British Wireless.
London, November 18.
The Times" learns that Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Minister, saw Mr. Yoshida, at the Foreign Office on Monday and told him Great Britain would be interested to have information. regarding the reported German-Japanese agreement
British official circles consider, the Far East and Western frontal created her huge autonomous the agreement as in being. It is believed to consist of two parts, j'army and military bases east of the first a barter arrangement, for the Urals, in order to obviate any uf.. the *Red army's the exchange of German munitions division and munition-marking machinery strength.— for Japanese merchandise, the Amster.
political agreement
second
which may not go further than a common declaration against Com- munism.
Keuter.
TASS AGENCY REPORT
Moscow. Nov. 17. A German-Japanese agreement has been initialed, in spite of the Japanese dental that such a pact, aimed at the destruction of Com- munian. exists. This is asserted by the "Tass News Agency" which adds that although the agreement refers to the mutual fight against
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ITALIAN HINT
Rome, Nov. 17." Fresh Ladication of Italo-German collaboration is provided by the preds support which the Italian gives the reported anti-Communist agreement bteween Germany and Japan...
Virginio Gayda, in the course of an article in the Giornale d'Italia. which authoritative quarters char- acterise as being very well inform- ed, says the association of Italy, Germany and Japan in an extensive struggle against Communism has
Communismt Lt Covers a secret
been imposed by the deliberately German-Japanese trenly providing | aggressive plans of Russian Com- for concerted action in the event munism. of one of the two countries becom- ing Involved with a third state.
An authoritative Soviet state ment, quoted by the Tass Agency" cariter, further states that the Soviet Ambassador In Tokyo yes- terday conferred with the Japan- ese Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita. who denied the conclusion of any agreement directed against the Soviet but admitted negotiations with a third state, unnamed, re- garding the formation of a bloc to fight Communism.
time At the same
Mr. Arita stated that Japan was striving to establish friendler relations with the Soviet and the negotiations conducted with the third state could not affect Soviet-Japanese relations either directly or in- directly.
AGAINST RUSSIA Basing ita esim on the same authoritative source. "Tass" adds that the third party mentioned by Mr. Arita is Germany, and that
"Tanks and combers in Kwan- tung, and levies and ravaging on the Mongol border would doubtless be described as instruments of self-defence against Soviet aggres- sion. So in the last analysis shey are, but that aggression has not yet taken shape and the power the initialed agreement is, in fact, whose strategic preparations for directed against Russia.
The news has caused no surprise war, which is admittedly desired
Include by neither side,
the here as ever sincs Herr Adolf Hit- slaughter and ruin of the neigh-ler's advent Moscow has believed bouring country's subjects, cannot in the existence of such an agree- hope to sustain successfully the ment." role of a timid and well-intention- ed prig."
It is pointed out that Molotoft referred to the existence of such Japan's latest move cannot fail an agreement in his official report to arrest the recently noted "abate-to the Central Executive last year ment of the Russo-Japanese ten- and it was in consequence of this, sion, for her new affiliations will knowledge that the Soviet (anti- enhance the anxieties of those who cipating simultaneous attacks on see disaster looming in the vicinity of Russia's western Bank.
Japan has two new friends whose penchant for recognising obvious realities" does not extend to accepting the axiom that signa- Torquay tures to international agreements are binding. In doing so she has exacerbated relations with Russia, jeopardised her own freedom of action and apparently has obtain- ed no considerable compensatory beets. She has also prejudiced the prospects of an Anglo-Japanese rapprochement, whose desirability she has been wistfully desiring for some me past, for it is no part of British policy to be committed with entanglements involving ad-
Swinden v. Dulwich Hamlet. Dartford v. Peterboro United. The Third Division teams 'ex- empted are Chester, Luton and Portyale. Reuter,
YING WAH
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GIRLS' SCHOOL herence to doctrinal groups.
Annual Prize Day
The Hop Yat Church was filled
man. ̧*
Reuter..
girls in laughter and good spirits. He then presented Miss Hutchin- son's report in Chinese.
When Professor Hsu had pre- sented the certificates, he gave a speech which was warmly received by the audience.
The lines may seem to be laid down for us with some rigidity. truth is rather that the way of to capacity, and guests were pack- human life is paradoxically both ing the aisles, when the Ying Wah Occupation muy be predetermin- ed by birth or by the decision of incans and end. It is the jour-Girls School held their annual prize day there yesterday evening.
Professor. Hau T. Shan, of the The following programme was others. There may have been ey itself that matters.
The real aim of the mortal Hong Kong University, distributed given by the students of the school no practicable alternative to be
final the certificates, and the Rev. to close their annual speech day:-- Pianoforte Duet "Polish Dance, coming an artisan, & teacher, a pilgrimage is not that
Chau Bul Ping; Lel Wing Ka; Songs lawyer, or an engineer. But it plunge into a doubtful darkness, Cheung Chuk Ling was the chair- still rests with the man himself but the road chosen, the means
The whole proceedings were in Waking up, Lower Middle School; Lullaby, Forms 1 and 2; Action whether within the course laid used, and the personality evolved Chinese. Singapore, Nov. '18.
On the platform were; Professor Songs-The Merry-Go-Round, But- The commander of the Nether down he is an eager and worthy in struggling along the path of
life.
Esu T Shan, Rey Cheung Chuk terfy Bong. Kindergarten; Chinese lands Squadron now visiting worker of his kind. He has more
Ling. Miss D. Hutchinson, Head- PlayThe New Life Movement," Singapore stated that in time of latitude, and to that extent still If a sense of proportion forbida mistress of Ying Wan Girls' School Lower Middle and Upper: Primary: Drill-Flag Drill, Upper Primary 1. war Britain and Holland will be friends. Britain if involved in more responsibility, in the family ne to accept even that as an end Rev. F. Short, and Miss V. Blicock.
Mr. Y. F. Law, the inspector of Chinese Drill, Lower Primary 4; warfare will find the Sourabaya and social relations of private sufficient in itself, faith is ready naval base useful, while Holland life.. There too, though the to descry the greater end to vernacular schools was unavoidably Pyramid Building, Lower Middle 1: Pianoforte Bolo "Romanesque", prevented from attending. will find the Singapore base general course may be already which the product of man's high-
After the school hymn was sung Wong Fung Bin: Play "The Pled necessity in case she is as war fixed by a combination of choice est effort may become a not un-by the students, the Rev. Cheung Piper of Hamelin." Middle School;
gave an address which kept the School Song. and circumstance, he is still worthy contribution.
with any other nation.- Reister.
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The
Japanese-German agree- ment, announced to-day, forms part of this defence scheme. Gayda belleves,—
Bruter.
MANCHUKUÖ ORDER FOR GERMANY
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Bellin, Nov, 17. A 12,000,000-mark contract will Man- shortly be signed by the -chukuoan Trade Commissioner, Mr. Kato, and a big German con- cern. for the supply of &. coal
plant, hydrogenation
2,000,000 marks of the purchase price being for a licence to make synthetic petrol from coal by the German Fischer method.
A number of other major trans- actions are under consideration, in- cluding a contract for the importa- tion of locomotives and blast furnaces by Manchukuo.
The new Gennan Commissioner for Manchukuo is leaving in the near future for Tokyo- Reuter
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DUTCH NATIVE RUBBER DUTY
Batavia, Nov. 28." The native rubber export duty. rate will be 57 guilders per hun- dred kilograms effective November 19.---
Reuter
JUST BEFORE "THE GAME
Mr. M. Lehmann. (German Tenis Cinb) and Miss & Mac kenris (K.C.C.) mapped just before their match last Sunday Canton.