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THE HONG KONG AND KOWLOON
AND GODOWN CO., LTD
WHARF
This is to give notice that the undermentioned Cargo will be sold in our Godowns at Kowloon by Public Auction, to defray storage charges, at 11 am. Tuesday, 29th December 1936, unless claimed and storage charges are paid before that date
Lot No.
Storers
D39813 Kilting & Co.
36-490
42576
do.
do.
Cargo
Date Stored
B Cases Vicunas
11/8/20
1 Case Fancy Goods 2 Luses Woollens
3/10/20
15/10/24
E56596 Asiatic Traditig Co., Ltd 1 Pkge. Stone Tank
57749
F40712
do. do.
46074 Shluwa Yoke
1 Pkge. Stone Tank
1 Cuse Singlets.
23/8/21
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1936.
struck with awe in realising its CONSTITUTIONAL Office: responsibilities to the Emperor.
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and Business 15-19, Queen's Road Central
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The times are troubled, and the country is beset with many diffi- culties at home and abroad.
The
London Office: 63. Fleet Street roots of those difficulties, more-
E.C. 4.
over, lie deep. The Government seeka, therefore, to bring about administrative reforms in its firm TESS.determination to cope with them.
The Baily Press.
HONG KONG, Drezurre 4, 1936
23/7/21 WHO
26/2/27
10 Cases Rice M Machinery
8/2/29
Powder Machine 8/8/33
H34691
Yamma Kiki Yoko
4
34692 *36534
do. do.
3
R.ce Macn.ne
Litho. Machine etc.
14/2/34
1 Case Singlets
27/1/27
Engineering Co. Ltd
do.
2 Cases Lighters
do.
2 Cases Sing.ets
11/12/27 14/1/28 7/1/32
42433 Colonial Commercial &
LL
42834
42936
Co.. Canton
do.
G38216 King & Co.
3978 South China Trading
86928
40088 A Poll & Ca 4012
51291 Cooper & Co.
5 Cases Meat Juice
do.
14/5/32
3 Cases Window Glass
2 Cases Window Glas5
1 Pce. Fender
2 Pecs. Planks
18/10/32 16/6/32 17/6/32
27 Cases Marble Table Tops
H38332 German China. Trading
3 Cases Samples of
Co
Hardware
41b19 Great Asia Co.
70 Drums Lubricating Oil
4 Cases Perfumery and
Nail Polishing Sets
4 Cases Glassware
3 Cases do.
25/12/29
29/9/34 30/8/35
24/0/34 5/10/33 9/12/33
G24505 Kwoon Fat & Co.
10 Barro's Chlorate of.
Potash
"11/2/31
25812
do.
1 Bale Match Glue
14/10/31
39 Cases Candy
16/2,434
1 Case Advtg. Matter
1 Case Silk Piece Goods
18/6/34 27/6/28
3 Cases Window Glass
13096 Dick Lee
26709 Tín Tạo 3 Co
do. 28991
H38557 · T. Nakane, Esq.
36558 William Candy Co.
F42961 Steger & Co.
H37494 Ladonna
F35766 Shun Lee Loong H27751 Wang Yip Commercial
Col Canton
F44473 Yokohama Specle Bank G25388 Tal Hing H36999 The Export Petroleum 'Co
of California Ltd.
do,
1 Case do.
I Case Cotton Trimmings 14/1-28
1 Case Glass Ware
1/11/34 26/8/28
1 Case Cotton Piece Goods 1/9/31 4 Pkges. Diesel Oil
do
38/3/34
29/3/34 3. Crates. Gasoline Engine 28,7/31
do. i Craze
2/8/31 do.
34841 G25313 Warren Wong A Chuck
1 Pkge.
25214
25215
do. du.
3rd December, 1936.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
The Twelfth Extra Race Meet og will be held (weather per hitting) at HAPPY VALLEY Saturday, 5th December, 936, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 30 p.m.
By Order,
..
S. A. SLEAP,
Acig. Secretary.
Hong Kong, 30th Nov., 1936.
R.
↑ Crates
F. IL CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
INVESTMENT.
Moneys amounting to $300,00 are available for investment en first class mortgage security Reasonable interest.
Apply to:-
RULES
JAPAN?
It is usual to describe Japan as one of the three great ass Powers. by tius is meant that those who rule
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ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS
London, Dec. 3. Bir John Simon's visit to Mr.
mons.
Badain lasted two hours, after It is not easy to see how re-which the Prime Minister motor- bellion in the army can be cured ed in the direction of the Com by administrative reforms in the Cabinet, but that is the interpre tution to which the military chiefs have since held Mr. Hirota's Government:
Alter considerable pressure Mr. Hiroca was even compelled to
appoint a commission to inquire
into the various reforms proposed
the army, but the commis
son's first decisions, announced
The Duke and Duchess of York who returned to London from Scotland this morning cancelled the pubile engagements arranged for to-day and visited Queen Mary at Marlborough, House.--- | Reuter
hi
PREMIER'S ANNOUNCEMENT London, Dec. 3
In the House of Commons to-
day, Mr. Baldwin announced that
at
he was not making any stazement to-day, while there does not
any constitutional The situation" is of
present exist difficulties
PRESS PROMINENCE
London, Dec. 2.
during the first week of lust month, are not likely to prove the Japanese atisfactory. For what the army such a nature as to make it in Empire have the same policy as really wants is finally to divorce thate about at this stage," he said expedient that I be questioned The Fascist Powers of Europe; the "Cabines from the Diet by Reuter. that is to say, they stand for ex-
creating new bureaucratic com- treme nationalism and the use
mittees which will wield all of force in their relations with
executive power and which it will itself control. With this purpose it has already secured the
ham Post" and "Yorkshire Post," appointment of a "Cabinet In- to-day publish leading articles-con- "National cerning the position of His Majesty None of these things alone, per-uiry Committee," haps, would strictly justify the
these editorials are based is the use of the word Fascist, but it is claimed that in addition the
cther States, while at home they suppress all liberty und deny the rights of the individual in the interests of the warrior nation.
rulers of Japan support the cap
talist system against a social and economic revolution from ben- eath. But when one begins to make a closer examination of Japan as it is to-day this simple definition is not quite satie- factory,
TEST CRICKET
England's Team Chosen For Friday
―
Brisbane, Dec. 3.
England's team in the first Test match against Australia which commences on Friday will be ins to Jows:-
G. O ̈ Allen (Middlesex) (Capt); LE G. Ames (Kent); C. 1. Bar- nett (Gloucester); A Fagg (Kent); W. R. Hammond (Gloucester); 3. Hardsta (Notts); M. Leyland (Yorkshire): R. W. V. Robins (Middlesex); J. M. Simms (Middle- X1; E Verity (Forkshire); W. Voce (Notts), and T. S. Worthing- ten (Derbshire).—
Henter.
Gen. Rydz Smigly
General Rydz-Smily, Inspector- · · *** ¦ General of the Polish forces, has been raised to the rank of Marshal of Poland on November 11 when Foland celebrated her Day of In- dependence. Although he is not a member of the Cabinet. General
about it. I am merely commenting on the absence of His Majesty's outward concern for religion," said the Bishop.--
Kouter
KING AND MONARCHY
London, Dec. 3. The "Times," in a leading article` headed "The King and the Monarchy," "says to-day the re- markable address by the Bishop, of Bradford let loose a flood of com-
Rydz-Swirly" is generally consider-· ed to be the most powerful figure in Polish polities.
and Empire cannot afford-is that the Infuence of the great ouice he holds should be weakened if ever private inclination were to come into open conflict with pub-
Eight of Britain's leading pro- "Manchester Guardian," "Birming-men: yesterday in most of the lie duty, and allowed to prevall vincial newspapers, beaded by the
Policy Council" (now defunct), the King. The text upon which end instituted weekly conferences address by the Bishop of Bradford, between the Foreign. Navy, and Doctor Blunt, to the Diocesan Con- War Ministers, to decide on ference, criticising suggestions re-
foreign policy: its aim, however,
is to create a kind of bureaucratic Cabinet which will in practice This aim replace the real one. has not yet been achieved.
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newspapers in Northern England Not only in Leeds and Bradford, but in Manchester, Nottingham, Darlington and Birmingham, were anxious questions put forward in- dependently" by
the local press. These comments of the great pro- vincial organs were not directed to the details of the supreme, his- thetoric, religious act of consecration, and were not in the least com- cerned with the controversy De- tween the two Bishops.
em-
cently made by the Bishop of Bir-
for changes in mingham Coronation Service."
The Bishop of Bradford phasised the point that to sever the crowning of the King from the Communion Service would be a "public humiliation of the Chur- ches' chief act of worship...
Adding that the benefit of the
Coronation depended on the self-
dedication of the King himself, the Bishop said they hoped His Majesty was aware of his need of God's
grace.
The explanation of these moves is a curious one. Though by the In the first place it is not at present systein the army has all all easy to decide who are the the power it wants, it lives under rulers of Japan. Obviously it is the perpetual fear that one day not the Emperor, in spite of the Parliament may recover its con- enormous powers granted to mm trol. For the remarkable fact is by the Constitution. The Crown. that the present system is not
true, has great power in defined by the Constitution at all, said the Bishop. Japan, but that power is not though it has grown out of it. exercised by the man who sits carefully guarded in his palace in Tokio.
it is
Equally obviously it is not the people, though they continue to elect by secret ballot and without compulsion & Diet or Parliament, for the simple reason that the Cabinet is not primarily respon- sible to the Diet but to the Em- peror, and for many years the debates in the Diet, have had 4654 little or no effect on the policy
MESSRS. WO0 & W00. No. 4, Queen's Road C.. Hong Kong.
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of the Government in
power.
"Some of us wish he gave more positive signs of such ́awareness,"
Says the "Birmingham Post**: The Cabinet, for instance, is "The Bishop must be allowed to uut even mentioned in the Con- speak but the truth itself, when he gives warning that in, the eyes of stitution, and a new system of the people of this country, as in civilian control over the supreme the eyes of the subjects of the command might be instituted "Crown overseas, the private and without even amending it. When Prince Ito drafted the
The
Constitution in 1889 be used the most extreme subtlety. whole document is ambiguous and can be interpreted either as democratic Constitution or an autocratic Constitution; it was undoubtedly Prince Ito's hope that in time Japan would develop,
On the other hand, the Cabinet
into a democratic nation. How obviously has considerable power and might claim to be called the nearly it did so can be seen in real Government of Japan, but any history of Japan, and on the Cabinet is chosen by the more than one occasion the civi- Premier, who is appointed by the lian Cabinet actually succeeded Emperor on the advice of certain in imposing" its authority on the elder statesmen and Privy Coun army. clors who in their appointed on the advice of the
public Me of the King are in- separable."
The "Yorkshire Post," referring
One or two hinted-it may be hoped without full knowledge-at a grave constitutional issue to be raised by the conflict between the King's intentions and the advice of his Ministers. But nearly all "of them saw the real justification in the Bishop of Bradford's re- macks lay, in the words of the "Yorkshire Post." in certain stałe- ments which, had appeared in re- putable United States journals and even in some of the Dominions' newspapers,
cannot which treated with dividence.
be
WAVES OF EXCITEMENT It is a simple fact, continues the "Times," that the American cam- paign of publicity so long and so wisely ignored in this country. has now reached a point at which it goes far beyond that side of
be held to be private. The
In the present case there can be no question of the mischief and' danger which are about.
The wave of gossip and rumour from the Atlantic has spread in ever widening circles, and is no longer
a little circle, with. " restricted to American connections. That it has not hitherto been a subject of comment in the English press is.. simply due to common self-respect, inspired by the hope that an au- thoritative act or statement would enable them to put an end to it once for all.
Such an act, or such a state- ment, is plainly necessary now, for otherwise the cumulative effect of this campaign of scandal will be
serious challenge to the monarchy. The high office which His Majesty holds le a sacred trust, maintained with growing strength and by the willing allegi- ance of the whole people to sovereigns who were secure cause they were respected.
HEAVIER BURDEN
be-
One reason why it count more to-day than at any time in history is that the constitutional growth of the Empire has lately placed upon it a far heavier burden of responsibility, and public opinion. in the Domnions 'terns instinctive-
simple link with the Mother Country.
to the rumours regarding the King. His Majesty's life which may justly to the Crown nowadays, as a
published in American and some newspapers, observes;
Dominion
"An Increasing number of persons Is led to fear lest the King may not have perceived how complete
in our day must be that self- dedication of which Doctor Blunt
spoke.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION "Deep disappointment must necessarily result if there should develop dispute between the King and his Ministers, such must almost inevitably raise a con- stitutional issue
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The second reason is that events in the world outside have imposed.
Continued on Back Page).
MOLLISON ANXIETY
DISPELLED
Safe Landing On A Farm
remarks that trans- Atlantic journals are subject to.j periodical waves of excitement about some particular topic, per- sonal for choice, and above all such a topic as the personality of the King of England. For Ameri- cans are essentially m personal people in their habit of assessing other countries, by the character of their outstanding figures.
The late King, says the "Times." America for the solid stood to worth of England. The present
London, Dec. 3. of the gravest King came to the throne, being James Mollison and Molnter, his better known to them than any co-pilot, on the England-Cape of his predecessors, with a great fight, whose whereabouts was the opportunity for perpetuating and cause of some anxiety last night. strengthening that tradition-to made a safe landing in the mist the immense advantage of re-last-evening on a farm at 25 miles lations between the two great from Bredasdorp, east of Cape- English-speaking democracies. towni.
STARTLING SUGGESTIONS The American press, the "Times" even gone to the proceeds, has length during the past fortnight, of predicting a marriage incom- patible with the Throne and of announcing
ap- Queen Mary's proval thereof suggestions which may well seem startling to most of the King's subjects in England, but which are doing infinite harm in the United States and the Do- minions. The reaction of the pub- He to this spate of gossip is by no means what might be expected by those whose whole impressions
PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Puoli PUBLIC AUCTION.
"Auction to be held on Monday, PARTICULARS AND CON.the 7th day of December, 1936, QITIONS of the Sale by Public at 3 p.m., at the Ooice of the action to be held on Monday, Public Works Department, by he 7th day of Dec., 1936 at 3 Order of His Excellency the Premier! Finally and all impor. m., at the Office of the Public Governor of one Lot of Crown tant, the Premier, even when Works Department, by Order of Land at Tai Kok Tsai in fac appointed, can only choose his is Excellency the Governor of Colony of Hong Kong for a term Cabinet with the approval of the ne Lot of Crown Land at Ar of 75 years, with the option of army and navy, whose nominees enal Street in the Colony of Hong renewal at a Crown Rent to be he must accept as Ministers of Constitution, for its whole popu advice which the Prime Minister
fixed by the Surveyor of His War and the Navy. Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years..
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the ois posal of the lot the purchaser will be required to deposit with
h
tura are For a short period the Diet was even responsule for the foreigu poucy or Japan. But at every point the army tought back until at established the present system which gives it mastery over the people. It dares not change the
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character."
The "Manchester Guardian" sug- gests that the Cabinet meeting last was concerned with a Friday
important "constitutional' issue. domestic problem that involves an since it bears on the relation of the King to His Ministers, and his readiness to be guided in all mat- ters which may affect the welfare
of the British Commonwealth by
Other newspapers comment in a
Although the London papers give prominence to the Bishop of Brad-
ford's address, no editorials have appeared up to now;
The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley
Baldwin, had a lengthy audience with the King at the Palace this
evening.
lar appeal is based on the docu-sees At to offer." Cong for a term of 75 years, with
In this way one arrives at the ment's sanctity. At every ad- he option of renewal at a Crown tent to be fixed by the Surveyor
answer usually given to our ques-vance the army has always claim-similar strain. His Majesty the King, for one
tion the army and navy are the cd that it was championing the arther term of 75 years..
real masters of Japan. By with- Constitution even when it was Intending bidders are advised
drawing their nominees they may violating it. For this reason the ant immediately after the dis
at any moment cause the fall of continual theoretical squabbles, osal of the lot the purchaser will an authorised officer who will be the Government. Their Minis.as over Professor Minobe's theory e required to deposit with an
present at the sale, the sum of ters are responsible only to the of the Emperor's position, have uthorised officer who will be resent at the sale, the sum of two hundred dollars, $200.00 in Emperor, to whom they have an importance far beyond their
hundred dollars, $200.00 in cash. This sum will be refund. right of access and through whom apparent meshing, for it is the stock Exchange, with a consequent sh. This sum will be refunded ed on payment of the purchase they may declare war or nake paradox of power in Japan that fall of prices, is attributed to the "peace without the approval of the the army, which rules by force publication of the speeches of the payment of the purchase price.
Cabinet. And, in the last resort, is committed to defend its posi-Bishop of Bradford and the com- ment of, the several provincial the army and the navy in Japan. tion by argument. For this rea-dailles. as in all other countries, possess son, too, the army is ever trying Renter, the final argument of force. In to establish a still more authori- view of this one may wonder why tarian interpretation of the Con.
rice.
ARTICULARS OF THE LOT
Registry No.
Locality.
Rd. & Lockhart Rd.
Arsonal Street st junction with Jaffe No. 4844
Boundary
Moneure-
monta.
As per
sale plas
Contenta in
Bquare foot.
nily
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Boundary Measure-
ments,
No. of Sale,
Registry No
Locality.
Anuna!
Beota).
**] Upret Frice.
Kowloon Inland
Lot No. 3897.
Lai Chi Kok Road,
6,000
75,000
4262
Tai Kok Tsui.
As per
sale plan.
About.
Contents in
17,140
Square feet.
ADORAT
814
Upset Prios
77,130
A certain nervousness in the of America are derived from their
BISHOP'S REMARKS
London, Dec. 2. After reading the newspaper
popular press. It is neither light- hearted, nor sympathetic. On the contrary there is clearly a most profound and widespread sense of bewilderment, extending far be- yond an individual monarch to the admired and envied institution, the British monarchy itself.
The aeroplane was undamaged. Kritich Marcin.
** SHORTAGE OF PETROL
Capetown, Dec. 3. Mollison and his companion landed near Bredasdrop, seventy miles from Capetown, owing to They are shortage of patrol. motoring to Capetown.
Beuter's Bulletin Service,
ABYSSINIA AND MANCHUKUO
Recognition Moves B. Italy And Japan
Rome, Dec. 2. The Japanese Government's de-
cision to replace the Legation at
Addis Ababa by a Consulate Ge- ceral has induced the Italian Gov- ernment to take a similar step with regard to "Manchukuo," 20" cording to Informed circles here.
It is stated that the Italian Am-
The path of a King can never be easy, the paper continues, least of all that, og, a king who has (bassador to Tokyo has informed
to
the military should be so anxious stitution, and by appointing new comments on his Diocesan Con- to have "administrative reform" commissions and shadow Cabinets ference address, the Bishop of reached middle age without the the Japanese Government that the After the rebellion in February to make Japan safe for bureau Bradford told Reuter to-day: blessing of a happy marriage. In Italian Government intends
an age which is supposed to be establish a Consulate General in more lax and more tolerant than the capital of Manchukuo,
there survives, ¦ The view is generally held here its predecessors more universally than ever before, that the conversion of the Lega- "the sense that kingship must be tion in Addis Ababa into a Con-
sulate General virtually signified. kept above public criticism.
Japan's tacit recognition of the Italian conquest. of Ethiopia, and
of this year the new Govern- cracy. Yet the whole attempt is "These people made a good deal ment, which had been thoroughly in some. ways pathetic, for re- more of the thing than they have approved by the army, made thevolution will not how come any right to do. There was only
one phrase that could be consider through Parliament or a demanded as a criticism of the King. following statement of policy
Unworthy though it be, the for popular Government but "What I referred to was that present Cabinet has been formed through Communist rising to all outward appearance the King by Imperial command to adjust among the peasants and workers seems to live entirely indifferently the situation created by the or, still more probably, through to the public practice of religion. is entitled to his relaxations and the Japanese step to therefore re-
I think that's a pity. February 26 incident. The task the National Socialiam of the
"My address › was written alx 4853 is great, and the Cabinet is army itself.
weeks before I first heard anything
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GOSSIP AND RUMOUR *. Even a king, says the Times,
the companionship of his chosen gistered, with great satisfaction by friends. What he cannot and will the Italian authoritative circles. not efford-and what the nation Neuter's Bulletin Serviani