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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS AND CON DITIONS of the Sale by Public Aucilon to be held on Monday, the 25th day of Jan., 1937, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order ol His Excellency the Governor ol one Lot of Crown Land at Yau. mati in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be axed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after 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 sum will be refunded on payment of the purchase price.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1937.
NANKING WILL FIGHT
ONLY IF NECESSARY
Bid To Regain Allegiance
Of Chang's Troops
The Daily Press REINSTATION OF YOUNG MARSHAL
HONG KONG, JANUARY 20, 1937,
A
New Spirit In
China'
NOW IMPOSSIBLE
Shanghai, January 19. Although the Government intends to accelerate hailitary operations against the Shenal rebels, major hostitics will be avoided unless absolutely necessary according to` well-informed Chinese sources.
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It is hoped that the pressurs of troop movements will succeed in convincing the rebels of the futility of opposition without re- course to the horrors of civil war. The operations by no means precludes the continuance of peaceful efforts aimed at the same object.
It is belleved that the combina- tion of both methods may assisi the Government to achieve its
By delaying the promulgation the decree pardoning Chang Hsueh-liang, who was sentenced to 10 yours imprisonment for the kidnapping of General Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Central purpose of regaining the allegiance Government followed I wise policy. Chang's humiliation was prolonged for only a few days, but the prestige of the Nanking PARTICULARS OF THE LOT Government has profited for
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much longer, and its ability to pursue definite national. and in- ternational policies has thereby be enhanced.
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As yet the "Young Marshal's" motives for, revolting against the Central Government have not been fully elucidated, least of all by his own formal admission of error. It is worth noting that he got surprisingly little help from the Communists, whom he was supposed to be 4056 making common cause in forcing
with
a more
the Governmcat into aggressive anti-Japanese policy.
HONG KONG/AUSTRALIAN That does not, of course, prove
FREIGHT CONFERENCE.
NOTICE is hereby given that as and from 1st May next, rates of freight to Austrailan main ports and transhipment ports will be increased by approximate. ly 20 per cent over current rates.
the contention of one, German commentator (who takes longer views than are general' in the Third Reich) that Japan had a head ja Chang's game. But certainly the Japanese Army has more interest at the
moment
than anyone else, Russia in China. Tokio has not cleared eluded, in promoting disunity in itself of complicity in the revolt of the South-Western provinces The failure of
Inst
summer.
Schedules shewing Tariff rates as from 1st May, 1937, are now In course of preparation and will be issued shortly,
AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL that adventure, so adroitly out-
LINE.
amnoeuvred by Chiang Kai-shek, EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN increased Chinese unity to a S.S. CO., LTD. degree a highly disappointing BURNS PHILP LINE. to the Japanese militarists that NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. the discontented Chang may
well have appeared a
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. Hong Kong. 18th Jan., 1937.
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CANTON EXPRESS
DISASTER
Fire Caused By Friction Of The Wheels?
friend.
desirable
Chiang was not a whit behind Chung in his "readiness to take the blame for what happened st Sianfu. He has twice offered to resign, and his offer has been twice refused. His "face" now restored. But that is not ali.
is
The Sianfu incident illustrated, strikingly and unexpectedly, that Canton, Jan. 19. Chinese unity is something more Believing that the disastrous than a facade. Not a single war fire aboard the noon express on lord offered to join forces with Saturday was due to friction of the wheels, Mr. Shen Shao-ts'en, Chang. Even Teh Wang, the secretary-general of the Provincial Mongol Prince, and his Chinese Kuomintang. told the Central bandit ally, Teo Shih-hai, aban- News Agency yesterday afternoon doned their private war on Sui- that the railway administration could not shirk their responsibility yuan so that the national situa- tion might not be complicated, for the blame."
"The engine-driver WILS
not and the leaders of the South- aware of the fire until some time Western revolt reaffirmed their had elapsed," the official agency
quoted Mr. Shen as having said. "This shows that the administra-
tion of the railway and the safety
of the passengers were Jooked after,
loyalty to Nanking
More than that, the indigna tion aroused" throughout China not well at the Prime Minister's capture
far transcended the usual demon strations of students and
Those responsible for the so- cident should be Hable for
in-
damages to the dead and wound-tellectuals; the stirring of some-
ed."—" Union News,
Forcing 2.11 entry into the jewellery.department of the Sincere
Company, on the second floor of the building, some unknown person made away with a quantity of valuable articles, to the value of
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thing approaching national consciousness could be discerned.
All that will be in Chiang's
of Chang Haueh-llang's forces. If the Young Marshal's men return- ed to Nanking, it is believed that rebel leader, General Yang Hu- chen, might be sufficiently weak- ened to make him abandon the unreasonable demanda.
the resolution of the recalcitrant
ties with the Communists would
Complete severance of Yang's..
satisfy the Government.
It is pointed out that the North- Eastern Army still hopes that that Chang Hsueh-lang will be reinstated in command, but they they must be brought to realise that this is now impossible. There is the hope that Chang may still serve his country by persuading his former troops to abandon their present. recolcitrant attiinde.........
Reuter.
CHIANG SENDS FOR CANTON OFFICERS
Canton, Jan. 19.
It is reported that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has telegraphed recalling General Lo Cheuk-ying. Commander of the 18th Route Army, Superintendent of the Can- ton-Hankow
Railway Military of the
Police, and Chairman Kwangtung Army Administration Department to Nanking in connec-
tion with important army affairs.
According, General Lo Cheuk-
YANG DOMINATED
BY REDS No Co-operation With Communists
Shanghai, Jan. 19. Reports are current here to-day that General Yang Hu-cheng, the Insurgent leader in Shens, is not a free agent, being completely dominated by the Reds.
Urban Council Urges
Daylight Saving
(Continued from Page 1.)
Assuming then that this Council JUS a whole is in favour of 1 measure of daylight saving, what 18 the best basis for such A measure? His Excellency's sug- gestion is that the present Hong. Kong Standard Time should be advanced by thirty minutes throughout the year. The alter- natives to this are (1) that Hong Kong Standard Time abould be advanced by thirty minutes for part of the year-say for the so- called winter months, or (2) that hours of work should start and Anish half-an-hour earlier. The hours of work vary so much the various Chinese and foreign industrial and commercial under- takings that I foresee great dim- culty in coming to any agreement in this direction
Governor At Stanley
On the whole then I would sig- gest that this Council also adopt the second resolution in its original form as proposed by His Excel- lency, he that the best basis for a measure of daylight saving would be the advancement of the present Hong Kong Standard Time by thirty minutes throughout the year. I say "throughout the year" because, if inconvenience is to be caused to business, financial, ship-.. ping and other interests by the change-over, the main incon- ventence will then occur once only. BILLIARDS
Le, when the scheme is first pub into effect, and will not be repeat-
twice annually.
OPEN-AIR RECREATION The resolutions were seconded by Dr. LA Shu Fan who said, inter- alla:-
Nanking leaders have unofcial- ly expressed the view that co- operation with the Communists fored a coalition government is impos- sible in view of past experience from 1924-1926. The same stand was reiterated yesterday by Mr. Wang Ching-wel in a freekly
As this Council is primarily con~ memorial speech in Nanking.
Kuomintang -
cerned with the health of the Communist co-community, and as the motions I operation becomes remote 13 Japan has hinted of a friendly at-open-air recreation, I have great understand atm at facilitating titude towards China. Japanese statesmen have realized that fur-
pleasure in seconding the motions ther pressure on China will drive
her into the arms of the Com- munists and the Soviet Union- Union News.
and very few knew of his depur- ture, as it was so sudden.
After conferring with General Chen Cheng: Chief Military Ad- viser in Hankow. General Lo Cheuk-ying will proceed direct to Nanking to report and confer with General Ho Ying-ching. War Min- ister and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
ying left Canton yesterday mom- ing for the North by special train, Chinese Evening Pre
Out At
Kwanti
Comdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.Q., R.N. (retired) and Mrs. Dibley · were amongst those who attended the January meeting of the Fanling Race Club last Sunday.
VINES AND PERRY ALL SQUARE
New York, Jan. 19. In the professional tennis duet, Ellsworth Vines beat Fred Perry by three sets to two, making three The match was decided after five sets, the scores in favour of Vines being 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, -Reuter
wins each so far.
favour when he resumes work in of the Japanese, who wish to SINCERE'S BURGLED earnest. His plan-and it is establisli anti-Russian outposts sound one-appears to be to in that province, indicated a consolidate Chinese unity before new firmness. embarking on a stronger policy That new note is hardly likely towards Japan.
to disappear from Chinese policy. Until recently he preferred to With his prestige increased by fight Japan by diplomacy, and his comparatively bloodless vic. his delaying action succeeded in tory over the "Young Marshal, terday morning when the staff re- checking, appreciably if not and with some semblance of turned to work and it is belleved permanently, the inroads of the national opinion behind him, that the robbery took place be-Japanese Army in North China. Chiang looks like: holding China tween 8 pm, on Monday and yes But his encouragement of the together. terday morning. The Central
olice Station was notified of the efforts of the Governor of Sul-
$122.73.
The losses were discovered yes-
burglary.
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And that is the only basis for yuan to resist the encroachments a bolder front against Japan:
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PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
His Excellency the Governor inspected the new prison at Stanley on Monday. He is seen, in the above picture, leaving one of the workshops. In front of His Excellency is Mr. J. W. Franks, Superintendent of Prisons,
CHAMPIONSHIP
STRANGE WINS ROUND IN JUNIOR MATCH
the
Playing in
preliminary rounds of the Junter Champion ship of the Hong Kong Billiards Association at the Club Lusitano last night, C. Strange easily de-
ber of Europeans in the Colony.
I understand that a large num-feated Lim How-wah by the score.
of 300 to 233 points. do feel the necessity for better facilities for open-air recreation after office work. If so, I'consider the Chinese should feel that they need them all the more, because the Chinese physique does not compare favourably with Euro- Deans, and they are less Interested in recreation,
There is no doubt that given better facilities by advancing the clock, the call of the open-air re- creation will be responded to even better.
On the whole I consider the proposal for daylight saving is beneficial to the Colony, particu- larly from the viewpoint of health. I have no doubt that it condues. to better efficiency of body and mind, and this in turn results in having a better service all round "ONE DISSENTIENT MEMBER"
At this stage Mr. A. el Areull: voiced his opposition. in the course of which he said:-
Running off into a lead at the beginning of the match, Strange kept this position throughout without any difficulty. Kis two highest breaks were 24 and 21 while Lim never succeeded in bet tering 15 points. The latter twice played his opponent's ball and on both occasions spelled: his run of good luck.
The run of the scores were as follows:-105 to 90 (Strange, 24 break), 175-100, 191-127. 201-130, 219-179 (Lim, 15 break), 254-184 (Strange, 21 break), 282-218, and 300-233.
LIVERPOOL
WHEAT MARKET
Bullish Long-Term Activity
نسيه
As the one dissentient member mentioned in your Speech I would like to give my reasons for oppos- ing the proposed scheme of day-
London, Jan. 19. light saving. I bear in mind that The substantial liquidation of this Council is asked to consider buli positions in the Liverpool the matter only from the point of wheat market to-day, with March view of public health and of the especially sold, is attributed to a social welfare of the community variety of shorter considerations. at large and any, dislocation of Chief among these are seasonal trade or the confusing possibility Argentine pressure and of a huge that one may leave British terri-United States winter wheat crop tory, say, at 8 o'clock (Hong Kong The long-term factor, however,
time), by train and arrive in appears eminently bullish and in- Chinese territory before B o'clock (Chinese time) if daylight saving is brought into force la no con-
cern of this Council
Mr. Arculli then gave his rea: sons against the motion and con- cluded by saying:---
I cannot see that daylight sav- ing would benefit anyone for nine months of the year-for the re-
WASEDA TEAM DEPARTS
Farewell Dinner At Peninsula
After a brief visit to the Colony during which time they played a series of matches against repre- sentative teams, the Waseda Uni- versity Hockey team sailed for
Japan aboard the s.a. Taiyo Maru at midnight.
The visitors were the guests of the Hong Kong Hockey Associa- tion at a well-attended dinner held. at the Peninsula Hotel last night. prior to their departure.
on
The Waseda team visited Macso Monday when they played against the Macao Hockey Club and lost by 5 goals to 3 after a splendid encounter.
The results of matches played. by the Waseda team in Hong Kong
bined Services 4-2; last to Colony were as follows:-lost to Com-
3-2; lost to Navy 7-1; lost to Army 4-1 lost to Argonautas 4-1; beat HK. University 2-0; lost to H.K. Civilians 5-1.
CORONATION
CELEBRATIONS
Chinese
Sub-Committee
Holds Meeting
Prominent local Chinese busi- nessmen and representatives of all guilds in the Colony yesterday morning attended a meeting of the sub-committee appointed to pre- pare a programme for the Chinese
clude Canadian overshipment, of side of the Coronation Celebrations dubious quality Argenting new i crop and the possibility of larger to be held on May 12.
storage demands to be met from the 1937, crop. ་ ྃ་
This meeting, which took place. in the offices of the Chinese Gen- Moreover, tightness of feed eral Chamber of Commerce, was graina. especially in the United į held under the chairmanship of States, coupled with the low ebb Mr. Ho Kom Tong, the well-known of German stocks of wheat, which local Chinese philanthropist and amounted in November last to only brother of Bir Robert Ho-tung. |maining three months the scheme 621,800 tons agains: 1,325,200 tons The discussions at the meeting might benefit some people who in November 1935, appear to war- were entirely of a preliminary An exhibition of photographic these people are in the minority want more time for sport, but
rant the maintenance of the nature and it was proposed to work bullish long-term view-
upon the arrangements as soon as portraits by Mr. Salvador D'Asis, and their interests should not be
Kruter, the well-known local professional allowed to outweigh the interests.
possible. photographer, was held during the of the school children and work- past two days in the Jacobeaning classes.
MR. SALVADOR D'ASIS
'Room of the Hong Kong Hotel Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam also The exhibition comprised of upmade a short speech, supporting wards of 30 large portraits of well- the motion and the Chairman known personalities, posed and then reviewed the discussion executed, in very attractive style, among whom were the following: President Manuel Quezon (of the Sir Robert Ho-tang, Mr. M. K. Lo. Commonwealth of the Philippines),
The motion was then put to the vote and received the support of the majority of the meeting The following members
MEMBERS PRESENT
were
Mrs. B. C. Feltham (the wife, of present: Mr. R. R. Todd (Chair- Mr. B. C. Feltham, the Government man): Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, architect), Mr. Eu Tong Beng and C.MG. (Vice-Chairman); Hon. Mr. Mrs. Eu Tong Beng. Miss A. Dod-R M. Henderson (Director of well, Miss Lacayo (the daughter of Public Works); Hon Mr. R. A C. Mr. T. Lacayo, Consul for Nica North (Secretary for Chinese photographer, of Hollywood, Call-Inspector-General of Police); Mr. Tagua), Mr. Erving Ross (art Affairs) Hoa. Mr. T H. King fornía), Mrs. N, de G. Waymouth F. C. Hall, Dr. R. A. de Castro and Air-Comm. Smith.
Basto, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, Dr. LJ Bhu Fan, Mr. A. el Arculli, Dr. B: N. Chau, Mr. W. N. T. Tam, Mr.
The portraits are fine examples of tone colours, with skilful blend-
ng of ght and shade. There are some full-face, senif-prodles and one or two full-length figures
B. Wong Tape. Mr. C. J. Roe (Secretary), and Mr. Im Ping- tseung" (Assistant Secretary);
Fanling Race Meeting
Mr. T G 8. Alexander, Col Macculloch, Mrs. Helberg and Mrs. Greaves at Kwant! last Sunday when the Fanling Race Club :-beld its ̈January, meeting.