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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON. DITIONS of the Sale by Public "Auction to be held on Monday, the 30th day of Nov., 1936 at 3 p.m.,,at the Office of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of At Lot of Crown Land Wong
Nel
the Chong in Colony of Hong Kong lor a term of 75 years, with
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SASSOON. On October 30, 1936, at 18. Hanover Terrace, N.W.1, to Hester, wire of Blegfried
·Bassoon--a "son:
DEATHS
CAMERON.-On October 31, 1936. peacefully, at The Hermitage, Peasmarsh. Sussex, Josephine Elizabeth Cameron, of 39, Hyde Purk Gate, S.W.7, widow of Sir Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.G., of the Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank,
ORMISTON.-On November 6, 1938. at Thirkleby House, Sunring- hill, Berks, Kathleen Anne, wife of the late Evan, Ormiston' and beloved mother of Angel Lus- combe.
and the Editorial
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Intending bidders are advised that immediately alter the dis posal of the lot the purchaser will be required to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. This sam will be refunded the purchase payment of
on
price.
·PARTICULARS OF THE LOT
No. of Sale.
Inland Lot
Registry: No.
Locality.
No. 4843.
South East of Inland
Lot No. 4385,
Blue Pool Road.
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Measure
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:ft. ft. it. ft.
As per
sale plan
Contenta in
Square feet.
Annual
Rental.
paet Price.
About
4,350
8,480.
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 25, 1936.
THE NATIONAL
MEMORIAL TO
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1936..
'BON VOYAGE?”
A scene at the Kowloon Wharf on Friday prior to the depar- ture of the troopship Dilwara for England. Well-wishers are seen leaving the vessel after bidding good-bye to milltary friends.
WHEN FURY BREAKS
LOOSE AGAIN
Air Commodore Charlton's Warning And Prophecy
No doubt many people are beginning to feel that there is a danger of the case of those who contend that air attack and air defence will be all-important, in future wars becoming unconvin- cing as the result of reiteration and over-emphasis. However, no one can read War in a far worse form of the dread-
KING GEORGE over magland," by Air Commodore fulness of medieval warfare, when
Before ending his year of office the Lord Mayor of London has Leen able to announce that the two objects of the King George Memorial are within sight of being accomplished.
The original estimate of the cost of the statue of his late Majesty. on
a site facing the Houses of Parliament and ad- joining Westminster Abbey, has been reduced by the gift from the Government of the necessary land. A worthy commemoration of King George and a splendid addition to the amenities of the apital of the Empire can now be foreseen at a cost of not more, than £125.000. Parliament will, without doubt, readily confirm the surrender of properties which in their new use will make pos- able a perpetual remembrance
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without re- L. E. O. Charlton, cognizing not only that it is a cleverly-written and most read- able book, but that it deserves careful study from those respon- sible for the defences of this coun- try and the Empire.
In a description on the cover it Is stated that "the book is a re-
minder and a warning of air raids over England, not written just to make our flesh creep, but much more to make our minds aware of danger before it is too late." That
Charlton's warn Air Commodore Ing will not go unheeded, at any rate by all who read his book, there can be no question.
the
The first part of the book is a story of the air raids of Great War-a memory sketch so vividly drawn that much of the almost stag- narrative will be an
gering revelation to those who are not old enough to remember the End of the Great War, horrors even those who are able to recall unhappy experiences during "the years will probably four fateful find from the book that much happened then of which they have been quite ignorant.
ustrating the effects
of the air
raids in London. The frontispiece. The Bymbolism of War," is a most striking picture.
PRO-GERMAN MOON Here is part of a description by the author of the conditions un- der which the people of this coun- try lived during the war:-"
towns were sacked by the enemy the and the inhabitants put to *word."
The other lesson to which the
MOSCOW TRIAL SENTENCES
German Appeal For Clemency
The
MOSCOW, Nov. 23.
BRITAIN IN THE
FAR EAST
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Trade Interests
Tino German Arshaurador here A Power Without A Policy
nas requested the Russian Foreign Office to support the German engineer Stickling's appeal" for executive clemency.
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Stickling, with eight Russiana has been sentenced to death ou charges of espionage and sabot- age in the Siberian mines, and it alleged that he spread pro- paganda against the Communist system, and the present Russian Government aud
loosed polson gas in the shafts of at least one big northern mine.- Heuter.
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BERLIN ATTITUDE
Berlin, Nov. 23. Before deciding on any set that may be necessary, oficial circles are awaiting the final reports from the Ambassador at Moscow. Count von der Schulenberg, on the sen- sational sabotage trial at Novo sibirsk, where a German engineer has been sentenced to death.
The precipitate breaking off of relations with Russia is regarded 4s unlikely in diplomatic circles, provided the engineer, Sticking. is not executed.
SOME CHINESE CRITICISMS
The arrival in China of Sir Hughe Knatchbui-Hugesson, the has Ambassador, British new caused a good deal of speculation as to the future course of British policy in the Far East. Of course, as Sir Hugte was prompt to point out in his first press interview, a change of envoys does not neces- sarily mean a change of policy. Fundamentally he made it clear British policy would continue to aim at "peace, prosperity, and a greater purchasing power among the Chinese people." Nevertheless.
Sir
how or other Britain ought to let it be known what she is willing to stand for and what she la not Britain and the United States ought to come together and say. We recognise the justice of a lot of Japan's claims but we cannot stomach the idea of a Japanese hegemony in China and, would. consider it an unfriendly act it any further move were made in that direction”.” This missionary also felt that much good might be achieved if Britain were to send out to China more men of the led calibre of Sir John Hope Simpson advent has Hughe's thoughtful Britons in China to! and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to ask themselves whether the policy render some positive aid to China which has been followed in the and as concrete evidence of Bri- past is good enough for the future. tish goodwill. The second mis- In some quarters there is a strong sonary supported the idea of an Anglo-American demarche. "My feeling that a more positive and
own view," he said, "is that there less opportunist line should be
ought to be mere imagination. followed.
about British polley out here. By In an effort to discover, if possi-that I mean that we should not something of the general content ourselves with preserving trend of British opinion in shang- a diplomatically correct position. bor should we adopt the attitude hal your correspondent interview- ed ten prominent Britons, includ- that we are merely interested in of the trade." ing the heads of some largest arms, a banker, a lawyer. and two missionaries. It must be
It is anticipated thas a com- promise solution will be found, perhaps in the expulsion of Stick-ble, ling or his exchange for some 'pri- soner held in Germany- Beuter.
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THE SHANGHAI MIND
author directs attention is this: "That to-day as much can be ac- then we chlery owe it that each confessed at the outset that the
complished in a single raid as was brought about on the last occasion in the course of four years of raid- ing. The first bomb fell on Bri- tish soll en Christmas Eve, 1914. The last bomb fell on the night of 5th-8th August. 1918. the date of the fourth anniversary of Britain's entry into the war. In the inter-
recurred. It
was
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val, for three and a half years the visitations strange, eventful period of time. In some ways it was a time of deep national humiliation."
AIRSHIP "SCOTCHED" BY AEROPLANE
The next chapter is a disserta- tion on airships. a chapter full of information that may be read with interest and "profit by all. For the general reader it has the precious merit that it is not en- cumbered with technicalities. Inci- dentally, the author expresses the view that, as weapons of war, it seems certain that airships will no longer play a part, their powers of offence having been scotched by the aeroplane.
The period of the Gothas
and
the Giants was bad enough, he says, and if the war had been pro-
memoirs
store. "We know, for instance. from Ludendorff's own that Elektron bombs were ready in quantity by the end of Septem- ber. 1918. These were incendiaries, burning at a temperature of 3,000 degrees Fahrenhelt and quite un- extinguishable. They could make steel run like tallow."
successive phase of the attack was finally foiled."
WE MAY BE INVADED Turning to an aspect of the concerned then, and raids which will concern in future, each man.
woman, and child who are nation- als of a country at war, he refers
population who will be sought out "to the passive, helpless civilian and slain as if they stood in battle
bayonets of the enemy. array, opposing themselves to the
"The air raids over England dur- ing the Great War were but a foretaste, the merest nibble, of now in wait. In ng what Hes sense of the word could it be con- aldered-real air warfare. That is. yet to come. with the modera per- fections of the dying machine.
The next war will be in and from the air, and if we are invaded. we will be involved Victims were only.counted by hun- dreds on the last occasion. Huri- dreds of thousands will be the tall when the fury breaks loose again."
AIR POWER WILL BE WAR ITSELF After recounting incidents of the
author says: "Multiply them by ten or twelve and the result will be a complete whole. Multiply them four or five hundred times and the result will be a moderate picture of what will happen on the next occasion They were only little raids, comparatively, which did this damage. Ar power in not those days of the war was A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE
very seriously regarded. In future It will be war itself. How will it It is the Zeppelins which will be
on the inhabitants of the hundred years bear talked about a hence and not the aeroplanes, the home country when that author considers." "A remarkable, comes?"
time
NOTICE is hereby given that in an adequate setting.
Interim
Six Dividend of
This act of the Government Pence per share On account of leaves almost two-thirds of the As the author remarks, "People the financial year ending 31st money already subscribed to be are forgetting those days. It is be reminded. March, 1937, has been declared devoted to the provision of play. well they should
Memory is short." However that by the Directors of the Companying fields throughout the country may be, the record which the in Brisbane, payable on
The £200,000 already available, author has compiled is a valuable lecember, 1936 to Shareholders which should be largely angene. and rendered additionally so on the Registers at Brisbane and I'mented during the months in by a series of photographs longed much worse was already in raids during the Great War the Singapore on 11th December, which the Memorial Fund is to he kept open, is to be placed in NOTICE is also hereby given the hands of trustees, and the
the
Singapore Transfer actus allocation of the money Registers will be closed from will be in the hands of a com- Saturday, 5th December, to mittee of which Mr. Attlee is Friday, 11th December, 1936 chairman, while the membership (both days inclusive), for the is that of practical men whose
"For the better part of two preparation of Dividend War diversity of public service ade- whole years. unt the airanip quately expresses the national ceased to raid, the whole country character of the commemoration.itved and suffered under Zeppelin
and little-known fact," he adds,In the next two parts of the Not the least satisfaction, of Sir Psychosis. 'Not a Zeppy night to night. thank God," would one say
the Percy Vincent's memorable year to another, scanning the sky, as "is that the aggregate of the air-book, "A Short History of the Next
activities over England War" and "The Last War."
this of office as Lord Mayor must be they parted for their homes at ship
amounted to only a tenth of the author attempts to answer the power to announce that a the end of the day's work.
of energy expended. question in a narrative which is memorial in a form in keeping because the Zeppelins dare not Fleet partrol work in the North remarkable for the completeness with King George's care for his raid on moonlight nights. Later, Sea absorbed the huge remainder with which the progress of war is thoroughly Justifled itself. worked out. But to fully ap- people's welfare is assured of in the time of the aeroplanes and
Gotha and Giant, which assailed Airships, for instance, saved Yon preciate this the full story must be success.
Scheer at Jutland from almost read. It was on the occasion of the City and surpassed the air-
certain disaster...
the Air Force Display at Hendon shipa in the death and destruction
that the first blow of "the next WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN which they wrought, the moon pe-
war" fell, and Germany deliver- came an enemy, pro-German.
"What might not have been theed it" according to the narrative. LIKE MEDIEVAL WARFARE net result to ourselves if Germany, What followed is thrilling reading. Referring to the lessons of those taking advantage of our total un-
THE MILLENNIUM® ́A days which can be taken to heart, preparedness at the first, had con-
But the most significant pas- the author remarks that "beside centrated her entire airship energy the dead and injured must be put tastead of raiding sporadically? sages of the volume are contained
the a postscript,
opening far and wide terrorization of the We had luck in that!"
and children, Several chapters are devoted to sentences of which read:..
"Year'succeeded year in a world for elucidation of miner points in sick and old, especially. The ill-chronicles of the raids. Then, dis-
measure and the discussion health of vast numbers must be cussing the real reason of the at peace. Universal disarmament Obviously the by land, sea, and air had been the served to indicate afresh that its counted in, and the misery caused. raids, he says:
towards the principles receive the general ap-The constant obsession of minds enemy "hoped to inflict great loss preliminary step
with a dead-weight of fear to the and damage and cripple as far as millennium. To this, as a neces- proval of all parties.
exclusion of everything else must possible our own efforts by bomb- sarg consequence, followed the in be reckoned.
ning targets of essential military ternationalization of civil aviation "And above."all it must be re importance. Obviously, also, when so that air transport might no membered that all this happened Indiscriminate bombing began so longer be an aid in disguise to to people who dwelt at home, far soon after the commencement. aggressiveness. The League ot from the Aghting fronta. They making civilians, men, women, and Nations was revived and reform- were powerless to do more than children, the chief sufferers, he eď.”
A Court
reigned of Equity suffer passively the tragedy and was attempting to break our wil
Hong Kong Bank Chambers, Singapore, 14th November, 1936. 4835
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
BAN ON POLITICAL UNIFORMS
London, Nov. 24. In the House of Commons last night discussion of the Public Or- der Bill which will prohibit the use Draft Programmes and Entry of political uniforms was continu- Forms for the Twelfth Extra ed in committee. Members sought
Race Meeting to be held at Saturday, 5th December, 1936 (weather permitting), may be ob tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Buliding: the Club Heuse, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 26th Nov. ember, 1936.
Order,
S. A. SLEAP
Actg. Secretary.
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the
British Wireless.
PASSENGER PLANE MISSING
"The moon was then a friend. sum-total
populace. women.
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Cairo, Nov, 23. Some anxiety is felt regarding a passenger plane belonging to Im- perial Airways, which was bound the grief. To these the air raids to war. But the High Command supreme, and to enforce the for Port Said from Halfa. The meant in reality the reappearance was far too astute not early to Court's decrees, 11 necessary, an
latest message from the plane stated that she was making a forced landing...
The Egyptian broadcasting station has sent out 8.0.8. mes
sages enlisting the aid of destroyers to search the cost of Palestine-
Reuter's Bulletin Service.
realize the unlikelihood of obtain-international police force was ing decisive results in either of created, the only military force on these two ways on earth. It was an air police force.” The author pays tribute to the From the Naval and Military pilots of the home defence, for to Record.”
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Most of the business men seem- ed to feel that on the whole the
safest palley would be to "stand
Dat" on the present treaty status. results were disappointingly e- bulous, especially in the case of lest. threatened by Japanese ex- the one hand and pansion on the business men approached. The
Chinese aspirations on the other, frank reaction of most of the lat ter was to ask, "What can we do?" | British interests be squeezed out altogether. As to the question of It was plain that in most cases they were looking at things from assisting Chinese reconstruction, the standpoint not of the prin- there was a good deal of loose
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M.C.C. MATCH DRAWN
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needs of their respective arms.; pointed out, when you came down
rest guarantee In few cases could any sense of to it what ciples at stake but of the peculiar talk on the subject, but, it was
Investor? the British identification with the problems there, for of the Chinese people be noted. Did not it mean simply that you One was led to the conclusion that gave the Chinese the money and then they proceeded to spend it the number of British business
as they thought fit? One or two men in Shanghai who possess the
friendly favoured
co-operation more capacity to see
beyond their Kimited distance
with Japan, though they admitted It would be difficult to adopt this noses can still be counted upon the
course without giving the Chinese Angers of one hand.
far the impression that a renewal of From
exceptionally
the Anglo-Japanese alliance was sighted merchant, however, who
in the offing. "occupies an influential position in the British business community came this thoughtful statement: "British policy should be at once
It and. eonstructive
realistic. should be constructive in that we should try to assist in every way China's progress towards unifica- tion and financial stability; and it should be realistic in the sense that British-traders should cease to rely absolutely upon their ex- traterritorial · status. This is ali right up to a point, but we have got to be prepared gradually to relinquish these privileges-not by overnight cancellation but rather by a normal process of attrition as and when the Chinese are abie to render the extraterritorial pro- visions of the treatles unnecessary. As regards the Japanese, the ques- tion is how we can establish an understanding with them so long as the policy out here continues to be so aggressive. I feel that we should be careful not to condone any Japanese activity, such as the North China smuggling, which we feel to be wrong. And we should not hesitate to condemn any ac-
tion which is contrary to dur own principles of fairness and justice."
BRITAIN AND JAPAN
Duckworth Stays Out Injured
DRAMATIC FINISH
Bydney, Nov. 24 match with the The M.C.C. Australian eleven was drawn in a dramatic finish during the last few minutes of closing time when the visitors averted an innings defeat.
It was revealed that Duckworth broke the index finger of his left hand in keeping wicket yesterday and will not be able to play for three weeks.
M.C.C. scored 288 in the fast innings and the Australians 544
when
for 8, at which the latter declared day, leaving the M.C.C. 256 ́ ruina when the match was resumed to-
behind. But this was by no means a re-
intervened Time
the presentative business opinion. “Al- most the only other recognition of | MC.C. total reached 245 for 8. principles at stake came from the Leyland scored 118,, including ten two missionaries. "The question | boundaries, staying at the wickets ought to be decided," one of the for nearly four hours and batting Voce. with Robins, latter urged, "as to how much Bri- tenaciously.
tain is willing that Japan should added 68 runs for the sixth wicket.. get away with in China. Bome--Reuter.".
LAST OF CITY HALL
The work of demolishing the old City Hall, where many, out- standing entertainments, including amateur comedies and concerts, were give In the years gone by, is fast, nearing an end.
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